Children and Youth
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.
Global governance and System-wide coordination
The progress made in implementing the Youth Strategy across the UN System is largely attributed to the strategic guidance of the Youth2030 High-level Steering Committee (HLSC). This intergenerational committee leverages the expertise of UN leadership alongside insights and solutions from youth networks. Technical leadership from the Joint Working Group (JWG) and the focused efforts of time-bound and issue-specific Task Teams have also played pivotal roles.
Executive Summary
The fourth edition of the Youth2030 Progress Report provides an overview of the implementation of the Youth Strategy across the United Nations (UN) system. The report is being launched against the backdrop of emerging opportunities for meaningful youth engagement in policymaking and decision-making processes including at the UN but also marked by multiple global crises that have led to the Sustainable Development Goals being severely off track.
Architecture and capacities to deliver on Youth2030
Meaningful youth engagement in the UN System
Foreword
The world stands at a crossroads facing existential threats that transcend borders and generations – from conflicts to climate chaos to deepening inequalities.
UN System: Advancing global commitments on youth
Youth2030: Progress Report 2024
Youth2030: Progress Report 2024 represents a significant milestone marking six years since the launch of Youth2030 the UN Youth Strategy. The current report offers a comprehensive overview of the progress in implementation of Youth2030. By comparing baseline data from UNCTs (2020) and UN entities (2021) with the latest reported data in 2023 the report shows the strides made by the UN system in advancing global youth commitments and youth focus in UN strategic planning processes.