The UN General Assembly has adopted a political declaration at the end of its three-day high-level meeting on AIDS, setting ambitious new targets to end AIDS and charting a new path in the global response for the next five years. The unanimously adopted declaration set a target of treating 15 million people with life-saving drugs and putting an end to HIV transmission from mother to child by 2015.

The declaration was adopted by the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS, which was held 30 years after the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Over the course of the three-day high level meeting on AIDS, more than 30 heads of state, government and vice presidents together with senior officials, representatives of international organizations, civil society and HIV infected people, stressed the need for an “exceptional and comprehensive global response.”