The UNGASS Declaration of Commitment (DoC) on HIV/AIDS was adopted in 2001 by all UN member states. The DoC sets out a framework to reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic and sets a reasonable target of 2010 to fulfill commitments. The declaration also includes milestones for 2003, 2005 and 2010. In March 2010, 147 member states submitted their final reports, which then made up the UN Secretary General Report 2010. This document summarizes the progress states have made in implementing their commitments.

In June 2011, the UN General Assembly 2011 Comprehensive AIDS Review will be held in New York to review the progress and to renew commitments to halt and reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In anticipation of this meeting, organizational partners will be undertaking the Universal Access 2011 Review and a global report compiling these documents, critical analyses, and policy dialogues will be released at the meeting.

High-Level Meeting: New York, June 8-10, 2011

• A/65/L.77 - Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV/AIDS
• Canada's Statement at the UN HLM
• Official website for the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS
• ICASO Action Alert: Comprehensive AIDS Review 2011 (pdf)
• HIV/AIDS Civil Society Hearing (Webcasts)
• Make ‘men who have sex with men’ a strategic priority at the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS (pdf)
• Solidarity for Universal Access: The International Advisory Group Consensus (pdf)
• Provisional Calendar of Side Events at the 2011 High Level Meeting

Other Important Documents for the HLM

• Media Release: "No Time Commitment is No Commitment at All"
• UNICEF: Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood
• UNITAID: HIV/AIDS Diagnostic Landscape
• Press Release: UN Negotiations on HIV and AIDS Deadlocked
• Event: From the bottom-up, the Million Message March to the UN arrives in NY
• Press Release: Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call to Action
• From Talk to Action: Review of Women, Girls and Gender Equality in NSPs in Southern and Eastern Africa

News from the HLM

• UN calls for attitude change on HIV; Civil society statement
• At AIDS Summit, UN Must Focus on Key Populations and Human Rights to Meet Goal of Zero New Infections
• UN member states agree on ‘universal access’ to AIDS treatment
• First Ladies of the world unite to prevent new HIV infections among children
• HIV/AIDS: UN High-Level Meeting on AIDS - where to from here?
• UN women’s agency sets goals for high-level HIV/AIDS meeting
• HIV prevention and protection for women and girls cannot wait
• Getting to Zero new HIV infections: High Level Meeting panel outlines way forward
• Shared responsibility – a new global compact for HIV
• Harnessing the power and leadership of parliamentarians in the AIDS response
• HIV treatment: Reducing deaths, illness and HIV infections while keeping costs down
• World leaders renew commitment to AIDS, health and sustainable development
• Security Council highlights role of UN peace missions in global AIDS response
• New global plan to eliminate HIV infections among children launched at UN
• Towards an improved investment approach for an effective response to HIV/AIDS
• World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015; Global Plan
• For First Time, UN Political Declaration on AIDS Addresses HIV Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
• It’s possible: Making the most of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV responses
• UN summit on HIV/AIDS adopts ambitious targets to defeat epidemic
• Innovation and new technologies needed to accelerate HIV response
• Can MDG 6 be achieved with the Health Workforce we have?
• UN chief welcomes ambitious new measures to roll back HIV/AIDS
• Victory at UN General Assembly high level meeting on AIDS
• Harm Reduction Coalition Podcast #33 (6/20/11) - High Level Meeting on AIDS: A report back from New York
• The Declaration at the UN HLM on AIDS did not Achieve Sufficient Advances for Women and Girls
• "Calm down dear" factor writ large: AIDS, women and the UN

Other Resources

• Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (pdf)
• UNGASS Declaration of Commitment (DoC) on HIV/AIDS (pdf)
• UN Secretary General Report 2010 (pdf)
• Organization of the 2011 comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (pdf)
• ICASO's work on UNGASS