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Progress towards the 2025 targets
The 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030 commits governments to a set of ambitious achievable targets for 2025 that reinforce the evidence-informed targets in the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026: End Inequalities End AIDS.
Foreword
This report shows that world leaders can fulfil their promise to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and in so doing prevent millions of AIDS-related deaths prevent millions of new HIV infections and ensure the almost 40 million people living with HIV have healthy full lives. Through powerful case studies and new data the report shows how some countries are already on the right path—and how all countries can get on it.
Executive summary
Midway to the 2025 milestone set at the United Nations General Assembly in June 2021 (1) the global HIV response has moved closer to the goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 a commitment enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Progress at the halfway mark to the 2025 milestones
Taking a sustainable HIV response to 2030 and beyond
Ending AIDS as a public health threat is an achievable objective—the knowledge tools and pathways exist for reaching this goal. But in a volatile and evolving context further improvements and constant adaptations are needed so people living with or affected by HIV can live long and healthy lives.
Methods
Every year UNAIDS provides revised global regional and country-specific modelled estimates using the best available epidemiological and programmatic data to track the HIV epidemic. Modelled estimates are required because it is not possible to count the exact number of people living with HIV people who are newly infected with HIV or people who have died from AIDS-related causes in any country. Doing so would require regularly testing every person for HIV and investigating all deaths which is logistically infeasible and ethically problematic. Modelled estimates—and the lower and upper bounds around these estimates—provide a rigorous representation of the HIV pandemic in terms of levels and trends.
UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2024
The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads
The report titled The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads demonstrates the HIV response is at a crossroads: success or failure will be determined by which path leaders take. The report shows that the decisions leaders make this year will determine whether AIDS is ended as a public health threat by 2030. Taking the wrong path by limiting resourcing or clamping down on human rights would lead the pandemic to continue to grow costing millions more lives and undermining global health security.
Mental Health of Older Persons
HIV Response Sustainability Primer
This Primer document outlines a new approach to planning and implementing sustainable national HIV responses that aims to galvanize efforts and to drive sustainable HIV response transformations to reach and ensure contracting epidemics beyond 2030 by upholding the right to health for all. Through country driven and owned processes based on the most recent data countries will develop specific HIV Response Sustainability Roadmaps. These Roadmaps will identify high-level outcomes across key domains of sustainability including political leadership quality access to services system capacities enabling policies and domestic and international financing.
Drug Trafficking in the Sahel
Drug Trafficking in the Sahel is part of a series of transnational organized crime threat assessment reports on the Sahel. With a focus on cocaine cannabis resin and pharmaceutical opioids the report explores drug trafficking in the Sahel by examining market dynamics trafficking flows the main actors involved and the enablers and impact of this form of trafficking on the region.
Statistics of Road Traffic Accidents in Europe and North America 2023
This publication (volume LVII) presents annual statistics on road traffic accidents and provides comparable data on causes types and results of accidents in Europe Canada and the United States. Data are organized by nature of accident and surroundings; accidents while under the influence of alcohol; and the number of persons killed or injured by category or road user and age group. As background data figures on the number of road vehicles in use and vehicle-kilometers run by road vehicles are also provided along with estimates of population and distribution by age group. This annual publication contains important statistical information for those involved in transportation planning and road safety issues.
Introduction
Every year approximately 90000 people are killed in road traffic accidents in the ECE region. Target 3.6 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development had the aim of halving the overall number of road deaths by 2020 compared to 2010. In September 2020 the United Nations General Assembly (resolution A/RES/74/299) initiated a second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 with the explicit target to reduce road deaths and injuries by at least fifty per cent during this period.
Transport in UNECE
Today UNECE services 60 United Nations inland transport legal instruments. Several of the legal instruments are global either by design or because their success has caused them to grow beyond the ECE region. In addition to negotiating the amendments to existing legal instruments UNECE has been active in facilitating new legal instruments. Its normative activities are enhanced with developing methodologies guidelines and definitions on subjects such as transport planning data collection and the collection of transport statistics. UNECE’s work on transport is governed by the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) and its 21 Working Parties which are in turn supported by more than 40 formal and informal expert groups and in cooperation with 9 treaty bodies (Administrative Committees). Annual sessions of ITC are the key moments of this comprehensive intergovernmental work when the results from all subsidiary bodies as well as the UNECE Sustainable Transport Division are presented to ITC members and contracting parties.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is one of the 5 United Nations regional commissions administered by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It was established in 1947 with the mandate to help rebuild post-war Europe develop economic activity and strengthen economic relations among European countries and between Europe and the rest of the world. During the Cold War UNECE served as a unique forum for economic dialogue and cooperation between East and West. Despite the complexity of this period significant achievements were made with consensus reached on numerous harmonization and standardization agreements.
Road safety in the ECE region
According to the UNECE data for the year 2021 significant disparities exist in road traffic accident fatality and injury rates among UNECE member States as illustrated in figures I and II respectively. These figures underscore the variations in road safety metrics across the region.