The 2021 High-Level Meeting on AIDS officially opens on June 8 and will continue until June 10 with some side events running from June 7 until June 11, 2021.
Yana Panfilova, a Ukrainian woman openly living with HIV, a member of GNP+ Global Network of People Living with HIV and Teenergizer, will be a representative of Eastern Europe and Central Asia region speaking at the Opening plenary session on June 8 along with:
- H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly
- H.E. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Ms. Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Ms. Charlize Theron, Founder, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, UN Messenger of Peace, actress and producer.
Watch the HLM 2021 sessions and side events via the official UNAIDS streaming platform (requires quick free registration).
The high-level meeting reviews the progress made in reducing the impact of HIV since the last United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS in 2016 and the General Assembly expects to adopt a new political declaration to guide the future direction of the response.
The meeting comes at a historic moment for the AIDS response, 40 years after the emergence of the first cases of HIV and 25 years since the creation of UNAIDS.
Find more information on HLM 2021 programme here.
