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AIDS is one of the greatest leadership challenges of our time. Without urgent
and long-term action, the epidemic will continue to take an unacceptable toll of death and suffering in countries and communities throughout the world.
In the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1), world leaders committed to a massive scaling up of HIV prevention, treatment and care with the aim of coming as close as possible to the goal of universal access to treatment by 2010 for all who need it. In July 2005, in the Gleneagles CommuniqueÌ?, leaders of the Group of Eight countries expressed their strong support for working towards this goal.
These ambitious commitments have brought the AIDS response to another historic juncture.
In response to the request of the General Assembly contained in its resolution 60/224, the secretariat and co-sponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have helped to facilitate inclusive, country-led processes to develop practical strategies for moving towards universal access. In the present report, UNAIDS assesses those processes. The assessment includes an analysis of
common obstacles and recommendations for overcoming them, through an
exceptional approach in which HIV prevention, treatment, care and support are integrated with broader health and social services such as programmes for primary health care, mother and child health, sexual and reproductive health, tuberculosis, nutrition, orphans and vulnerable children, as well as formal and informal education.
