On the fast track to ending the AIDS epidemic
Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declarations on HIV and AIDS
Report of the Secretary-General
A/70/811 :: 31 pages
UN General Assembly; Seventieth session ; Agenda item 11
[Excerpts: report paragraphs which reference vaccines]
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7. Ending AIDS requires HIV and other health and social needs to be met throughout a lifetime, including when a person is at risk of acquiring HIV, when a person requires lifetime access to treatment and when an individual, family or community may have to care for orphans and people living with HIV. Ending AIDS demands focusing resources in the countries, districts, subdistricts and city boroughs most affected and tailoring services to populations at risk and communities living in fragile contexts. It requires people-centred innovation, from transforming and reinforcing community-and facility-based service delivery to developing more effective, affordable health products, including a vaccine and cure.

39. Ending the AIDS epidemic is only possible if all people living with and affected by HIV can access affordable, quality health products. Innovation is required to enable access to point-of-care diagnostics and affordable, optimized prevention tools, including women-initiated technologies, and medicines including second-and third-line antiretroviral therapy regimens and for tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C, as well as a vaccine and cure. Recognizing that countries of all income levels struggle to provide access to affordable, quality medicines, vaccines and diagnostics, I have convened a high-level panel on access to medicines. The panel is mandated to assess and recommend solutions for remedying the policy incoherence among the rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health, and will deliver its final report in June 2016.

64. Delivery of innovative products must be further encouraged through scaled-up investments in research and the development of more tolerable, efficacious and affordable health products, including: simpler, longer-lasting drug formulations for children, adolescents and adults; second-and third-line therapy; diagnostics; prevention technologies, including vaccines; and a cure.

V. Embracing sustainable development solutions to fast-track an accelerated, rights-based AIDS response: Recommendations
…(j) Boldly pursue new scientific solutions and expand investment in research and development for improved diagnostics, easier and more tolerable treatment regimens, therapeutic vaccines and other prevention technologies as well as a functional cure and ensure affordability by aligning trade rules and public health objectives under a human rights framework…

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Press release
New report shows that urgent action is needed to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030
NEW YORK, 06 May 2016—A new report released by the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, warns that the AIDS epidemic could be prolonged indefinitely if urgent action is not implemented within the next five years. The report, On the Fast-Track to end the AIDS epidemic, reveals that the extraordinary acceleration of progress made over the past 15 years could be lost and urges all partners to concentrate their efforts to increase and front-load investments to ensure that the global AIDS epidemic is ended as a public health threat by 2030…