The past 10 years have seen unprecedented commitments to global health and development, beginning in 2000 with the commitments in the United Nations Millennium Declaration that became known as the Millennium Development Goals with their corresponding set of time-bound targets. At the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, United Nations Member States made pledges for a comprehensive response to HIV in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, and expanded those commitments in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS adopted in 2006, including a commitment to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for all in.
