Ungass-HIV/Aids

Recognizing the HIV/AIDS pandemic as an unprecedented worldwide emergency and one of the greatest challenges to life and the enjoyment of human rights the United nations called on member states to reflect on this matter. In June 2001 around 20 years after the first AIDS cases were recorded the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV and AIDS (UNGASS HIV/AIDS) was held in New York. The Session culminated in the drafting of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS: a document that reflected the consensus between 189 countries including Brazil and stated some essential principles for an effective response to the epidemic. The Declaration recognized that economic racial ethnic generational and gender inequalities among others were factors that boosted vulnerability and whether acting separately or in synergy favored HIV infection and the onset and evolution of AIDS. The Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS has become transformed into a tool for reaffirming the urgency and necessity of promoting the solidarity that the epidemic demands. It aims towards better management of the actions and resources destined for controlling HIV and AIDS and towards social control over public HIV/AIDS policies. (excerpt)

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