Thematic Panel 3: Community Leadership - Driving an Inclusive and Sustainable HIV Response.
Thematic Panel 3 will explore the critical role of communities in advancing the HIV/AIDS response. The discussion will highlight how networks of people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV have led and driven progress through advocacy, service delivery, research, monitoring and accountability. The session will emphasize the importance of empowering, funding and sustaining community-led responses as essential not only to improving HIV outcomes, but also to advancing human rights, gender equality, and social inclusion, all of which are essential to ending AIDS by 2030. ** The United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS held every five years since 2001 at the UN Secretariat in New York—reinforces the role of the UN as the primary political mechanism for accountability and commitment in the global HIV response.
