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Global AIDS response has shown remarkable success in reducing new infections, improving access to prevention services for key population and treatment services for People living with HIV (PLHIV), reducing AIDS related mortality, enabling reduction in mother to child transmission of HIV and creating an enabling environment.

Global HIV Prevention Coalition

• In 2017, a global coalition of United Nations Member States, donors, civil society organizations and implementers was established to support global efforts to accelerate HIV prevention. 
• Membership includes the 25 highest HIV burden countries, UNAIDS Cosponsors, donors, and civil society and private sector organizations.

Goal

To strengthen and sustain political commitment for primary prevention by setting a common agenda among key policy-makers, funders and programme implementers.\

Significance

• The coalition aspires to maintain a global accountability process with score cards, reflecting progress against national targets, to track yearly progress.
• It is establishing a coordinated and responsive modality for providing technical support to needs assessments, target-setting, planning, implementation, programme reviews and technical and policy guidance through an interagency draw-down mechanism.

Source: PIB