There are many emerging global developments relating to: reduced funding for HIV; changes in global health priorities to focus on emerging non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and investments in systems driven by renewed calls for universal health coverage; and economic transitions of growth in many high-burden countries, which in turn impacts development assistance that currently heavily funds HIV and AIDS programmes. In this context, it has become increasingly important to rethink advocacy to sustain global and national attention in the HIV and AIDS agenda. This session aims to reflect on and determine the importance of political will in getting to zero new infections; draw lessons from past successes of the HIV response that catapulted it and maintained high-level political commitment for two decades; provoke discussions on how to maintain high levels of political will at a global level and within countries for HIV in the face of emerging transitions and competing priorities.

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