Global AIDS response progress reporting 2016: Construction of core indicators for monitoring the 2011 United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS

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Global AIDS response progress reporting 2016: Construction of core indicators for monitoring the 2011 United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS

22 November 2016
UNAIDS

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to national AIDS programmes and partners on the use of core indicators to measure and report on the country response.

The 2011 UN Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (General Assembly resolution 65/277), adopted at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS in June of that year, mandated UNAIDS to support countries to report on the commitments in the declaration.

The Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting (GARPR) indicators, before 2012 known as UNGASS indicators, were until 2012 reported at the global level every second year; from 2013 data have been collected every year.

This reporting round, with 2015 data, is a transition year between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), providing the baseline for targets to be set at the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on AIDS in 2016. The future HIV monitoring framework for 2016–2021 will be agreed after the HLM. This year’s guidelines are a combination of the core indicators used in previous years, with additional indicators that monitor the treatment cascade. UNAIDS, WHO, UNICEF and partners have collaborated to compile the Consolidated strategic information guidelines for HIV in the health sector (WHO, 2015).

In the past reporting rounds, countries have been encouraged to integrate core indicators into ongoing monitoring and evaluation. These indicators are designed to help countries assess the state of their national response and progress in achieving national HIV targets. They will contribute to a better understanding of the global response to the HIV pandemic, including progress towards the global targets set in the 2011 Political Declaration and the SDGs.

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