2016 High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS
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The 2016 High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS was one of the annual United Nations Meetings on HIV and AIDS, starting on 8 June, and ending 2 days later, on 10 June 2016, in New York.[1] It was co-facilitated by Switzerland and Zambia, and the United Nations President of the General Assembly. In another side-event, 30 New York mayors declared the AIDS epidemic would be ended by 2030.
The ban of 11 LGBT organizations by 51 Muslim states caused protests by the United States, Canada, the European Union and LGBT communities. 57 countries including Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation requested the removal of LGBT associations in a letter giving no explicit reason for it.[2][3]
The official website for this meeting is archived, but it can be found here:[4]
Side events were also hosted, before, and after the meeting, seen below. The goals set during the main meeting were:
To have fewer than 500,000 newly infected with AIDS by 2020 (Achieved. The AIDS epidemic was considered to be ended by the WHO at the end of 2019.[5])
To have fewer than 500,000 people dying from AIDS by 2020.(Failed. 690,000 people died from AIDS-related causes at the end of 2019.)[5]
To eliminate HIV-related discrimination (Failed.)