The NGO Delegation made several lively interventions during this PCB. Among others, we noted the need to simultaneously pursue the global commitment to ending AIDS, while at the same time ensuring HIV is not lost in the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many of which also have a target date of 2030. And we re- emphasised the need to describe this process as movement towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support.
We referred to the crises precipitated by new laws in many countries that result in the increased stigmatisation of key vulnerable populations, undermining their access to prevention, treatment, care and support. We acknowledged that under existing definitions these crises did not reach the level of country-wide humanitarian emergencies. However, we requested UNAIDS to include in its risk management a plan to deal with political and social crises that impact on the delivery or receipt of HIV prevention services and care to people at risk of HIV, or living with HIV or particular subsets of these populations.