Getting on the Fast Track: Advocacy Priorities for the Global HIV and Human Rights Responses with Gay and Bisexual Men

In 2015, UNAIDS introduced accelerated targets in the global response to HIV. Targets were reaffirmed by the 2016 UN Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS. Unabated HIV epidemics worldwide among gay, bisexual men and other men who have sex with men threaten to undermine gains made to date in reaching global HIV targets unless addressed with targeted, evidence-based, and human rights-affirming interventions at scale.

The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), together with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (with representatives from UNAIDS Secretariat, UNDP, UNFPA, the World Bank, and WHO), established an advocacy platform composed of community members, activists, researchers, and representatives from donor agencies and multilateral institutions to fast track HIV and human rights responses among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.