At the close of the groundbreaking United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in June 2001, 189 Member States adopted the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. The UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors collaboratively developed a series of global, regional and national indicators to measure the global community’s progress in reaching the Declaration’s targets. In 2003, surveys were submitted to all 189 Member States, with 103 submitting national reports.
This report, which presents data from the first use of these indicators, represents the most comprehensive assessment to date of the state of global, regional and national responses on the broad range of challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. It is our hope that policy-makers, donors, national authorities, advocates, journalists, and concerned individuals throughout the world will find this report useful, and that the report will help generate even greater commitment towards achieving the targets agreed to at the UN Special Session in 2001.
