Resolution WHA63.19: WHO HIV/AIDS strategy for 2011-2015

Recognizing that the significant gains made in prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS need to be sustained and expanded for Millennium Development Goal 6 to be achieved, including the urgent need to strengthen targeted prevention measures and achieve universal access to antiretroviral treatment, within a framework of respect for human rights, gender equality, and the reduction of stigmatization and discrimination;
  • Harm reduction
Noting that a sustainable HIV response requires its integration into comprehensive health systems, including those for maternal, neonatal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, tuberculosis prevention and control, harm reduction for drug users,2 and primary health care, particularly noting that sustaining these efforts is challenging in light of the global financial crisis;
  • Harm reduction
Recognizing the need for countries to sustain commitment to addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic at all levels, including the highest political level, and to be supported in their efforts to expand the scope, improve the effectiveness and ensure the sustainability of their HIV responses so as to enable them to achieve the Millennium Development Goals;
  • Harm reduction
  • Development/SDGs
Noting that a sustainable HIV response requires its integration into comprehensive health systems, including those for maternal, neonatal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, tuberculosis prevention and control, harm reduction for drug users,2 and primary health care, particularly noting that sustaining these efforts is challenging in light of the global financial crisis;
  • Harm reduction
Recognizing that antiretroviral treatment programmes take a major share of total national AIDS spending in most countries, which warrants paying attention immediately to reviewing and improving the performance of those programmes through early recruitment, ensuring highest adherence to medications, limiting drug resistance, minimizing risk behaviours, and enhancing the level of national spending on HIV prevention and control measures;
  • Harm reduction

(3) to incorporate, based on national contexts, the policies, strategies, programmes and interventions and tools recommended by WHO in order to implement effective HIV prevention measures, early diagnosis, treatment and care; and take further steps towards minimizing social stigmatization and discrimination which hamper access to prevention, treatment and care;
  • Harm reduction

(5) to integrate HIV/AIDS services into comprehensive strategies in health and other relevant sectors, including those for maternal, neonatal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, tuberculosis, harm reduction1 and primary health care, in order to ensure sustainability and maximize efficiencies and effectiveness;
  • Harm reduction

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