Yesterday at the AIDS 2024 conference, we launched the Global Parliamentary Platform on HIV and AIDS. The Platform will provide the space and resources to unite, strengthen, and amplify the leadership of parliamentarians committed to ending AIDS and new HIV transmissions.
The platform is hosted by a Secretariat formed by UNITE, the Global TB Caucus, and the Global Equality Caucus, and supported by the International AIDS Society (IAS), UNAIDS, STOPAIDS, and WACI Health.
Parliamentarians are vital to building and sustaining the political will to invest in HIV and global health responses. Engaged and committed parliamentarians exist across the world, but until now there has been no mechanism for global knowledge-sharing, capacity-building, and coordination of these lawmakers and their advocacy; both within and between parliaments.
This is part of UNITE’s long-standing priority to address HIV/AIDS and commitment to help restore political momentum behind what is not only achievable, but what would be one of humanity’s greatest achievements of global solidarity; ending the global pandemic of HIV and AIDS.
Launching at the 2024 International AIDS Conference in Munich, over 370 Parliamentarians from over 45 countries have already signed the Founding Declaration, pledging to work with communities, civil society, governments, institutions and multilaterals to build the necessary democratic and political pressure for a more determined HIV response.
