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The global HIV response represents one of the clearest demonstrations of the ability of the international community to unite and deliver results that have improved the health of millions of people around the world. Currently, we have an unprecedented opportunity to end AIDS in a generation.
There is great political momentum and promise to achieve this through the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Strategic Investment Framework for the Global HIV Response, the Global Plan Towards The Elimination Of New HIV Infections Among Children By 2015 And Keeping Their Mothers Alive, and through the reform of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Addressing the need for family planning is integral
to achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6, especially in ensuring dual protection for the prevention of unintended pregnancy and HIV transmission, including vertical transmission; and also directly contributes to the achievement of MDGs 3, 4 and 5.