Key Policy Issues: 2013 Pan-African Parliament / UNAIDS Dialogue

Pride Chigwedere, MD, PhDSenior Advisor , UNAIDS Liaison Office to the AU

Session 1: Update on the HIV epidemic, the AIDS response in Africa and global and continental commitments Session 2: Special role of Parliaments in the AIDS response: Leadership, governance and oversight focusing on implementation of global, continental and regional commitmentsSession 3: Parliamentary legislative role - human rights challenges related to the HIV response in Africa, including gender issuesSession 4: Parliamentary legislative and regulatory role - security to accessing medicines, TRIPS and local production and regulatory harmonisationSession 5: Parliamentary budgeting role - sustainable financing for the AIDS response

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 DIALOGUE

PAP members agreed to continue playing Key roles:• Ensure that HIV remains a key priority in continental and national agenda• Monitor the implementation of continental commitments including the

AU roadmap on Shared Responsibilities• Be overseers of government activity and ensure that government

commitments on HIV are respected• Design, adopt and oversee the implementation of legislation that protects

human rights and advances (rather than hinders) effective HIV prevention, care and treatment programmes

• Set-up standards, based on international rights instruments, for human rights issues as they relate to HIV/AIDS for the continent

• Develop a Continental Model law on HIV building on the regional experiences of SADC, EAC , ECOWAS

• Develop African HIV Charter in collaboration with the AU

Session 6: From dialogue to action

PAP members agreed to continue playing Key roles:• Be overseers of national budget appropriations, and advocate for

adequate and cost-effective funding to be provided to both national and international AIDS programmes.

• Innovative financing for HIV within the continent and promote inter-country learning

• Support development of regional hubs for drugs production in Africa

• Universal treatment on the continent• Continued investment in research on HIV vaccines and

improvement of African Research capacity

Session 6: From dialogue to action

PAP secretariat and UNAIDS agreed: • Develop concrete action-plan to operationalize the MOU • To develop the parliamentarian hand book on AIDS for Africa• Develop country score cards on status of country HIV epidemic

and response, that include gender and HIV indicators • Create a continuous information sharing medium to support

learning and continuous information flow • Organize a leadership session during ICASA 2013 in Cape Town• Build capacity of PAP members to understand drug production

and pharmaceutical issues including TRIPS• Establish a PAP MPs network on HIV to enhance networking• Strengthen the capacity of the African parliamentary committees

involved in HIV response

Session 6: Capacity Building

Key Issues on the Future of the AIDS Response

• MDGs have provided a framework for priorities that the global community should strive to achieve

• But MDGs have a target date of 2015. – What replaces the MDGs? Who decides?– What have we learned from the MDGs that we should

continue beyond 2015? – What happens to the goals that have not been achieved

by 2015 – the MDGs unfinished agenda – including AIDS– What additional priorities should the global community

strive to achieve?

Post-2015 Development Framework

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The Post-2015 House: UN Process towards an agenda

UN General Assembly

2011 UN Political Declaration: Concrete targets for 2015

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Halve sexual transmission

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Halve infections among PWID

3

Eliminate new HIV infections among children and halve AIDS-related maternal deaths

4

15 million people on HIV treatment

5

Halve TB deaths among people living with HIV

10

Eliminate parallel systems, for stronger integration

9

Eliminate travel related restrictions

8

Eliminate stigma and discrimination

7

Eliminate gender inequalities and sexual violence and increase capacities of women and girls

6

Close the global resource gap and achieve annual investment of US$ 22B-24B

Balance of Evidence Favors Earlier Initiation of ART – Implications on Numbers for Treatment

↓Drug toxicity ↓Resistance

↓Upfront costs Preservation of Tx options

Civil society

↑Clinical benefits (HIV- and non-HIV related(

↓HIV and TB transmission ↑Potency, durability, tolerability ↑Treatment sequencing options

Civil Society↑ Medium & long cost savings

Delayed ARTEarlier ART

• Build on earlier initiatives – implement / incorporate PAP Dialogue outcome

• Outcome that is actionable for parliamentarians– Oversight of the response– Enabling legal and policy environment– Securing medicines– Sustainable financing

• Capacity building– Partner responsibilities

• Future of the AIDS Response– Post-2015 Agenda– Treatment

Conclusion

16 October 2006 UNAIDS

VISIONZERO NEW HIV INFECTIONS.

ZERO DISCRIMINATION.

ZERO AIDS-RELATED DEATHS.