International HIV/AIDS Alliance annual report 2015

The year 2015 saw excellent progress for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, with 13 out of 14 of our milestones exceeded. The year marked the start of a new era towards ending AIDS. In September 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Alliance worked closely with many others to ensure HIV was included as part of a new health goal to promote health and wellbeing for all, with a specific target to end AIDS by 2030.

The coming year will be critical in helping us working to meet this 2030 goal. It is a year where we have the possibility of securing new, bolder commitments to the response to AIDS at the global level through the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS and will be crucial in terms of ensuring that AIDS stays on the agenda for funders. With other competing development priorities like the European refugee crisis, political support for official development assistance (ODA) has continued to decrease. This has created a greater sense of urgency around efforts to diversify financial support. Opportunities and challenges facing the Alliance for the coming year are discussed in greater detail below.

Significant achievements of the Alliance during 2015 included the following:

• In 41% of Alliance countries, our Linking Organisations contributed 10% or more of the national coverage for HIV prevention, care or treatment (target 30% of Alliance countries).
• 1,300,000 defined packages of HIV prevention services were provided to key populations; 30% higher than the target set.
• One million people received HIV testing and counselling services for HIV, and received their test results; 25 Linking Organisations contributed to this target in 2015.
• Nearly 1.2 million adults and children living with HIV received care and support services; a 29% increase since 2014. • 1,599,000 people were reached with integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) activities; 900,000 were women and girls.
• 2,174 community-based organisations (CBOs) received grants through the Alliance (target 2000); 83% achieved their programmatic and financial targets.
• 809 CBOs and networks were supported by the Alliance to monitor and report on human rights-related barriers to access services (2015 target 350).
• 9 Linking Organisations are Global Fund Principal Recipients (PR), managing one of the largest Global Fund civil society portfolios with a value of $310 million.
• We organised a number of high-level events to influence decision makers in the year leading up to the agreement of the new Sustainable Development Goals, including at the Financing for Development Conference and the UN Summit. We also had a strong presence at the international harm reduction and the international family planning conferences.

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