Removing the societal and legal impediments to the HIV response: An evidence-based framework for 2025 and beyond.

ABSTRACT: Societal and legal impediments inhibit quality HIV prevention, care, treatment and support services and need to be removed. The political declaration adopted by UN member countries at the high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS in June 2021, included new societal enabler global targets for achievement by 2025 that will address this gap. Our paper describes how and why UNAIDS arrived at the societal enabler targets adopted. We conducted a scoping review and led a participatory process between January 2019 and June 2020 to develop an evidence-based framework for action, propose global societal enabler targets, and identify indicators for monitoring progress. A re-envisioned framework called the '3 S's of the HIV response: Society, Systems and Services' was defined. In the framework, societal enab

SUBMITTER: Stangl AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863250 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature