The Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030

The Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children (globalregionalnational)

Launched in 2022 by UNAIDS, UNICEF, and WHO, the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030 is a bold, strategic, and action-oriented initiative brings together a wide coalition of global, regional, and national stakeholders working with women, children, and adolescents living with HIV to drive leadership, funding, and accountability toward ending AIDS in children by 2030.

Despite progress in preventing vertical transmission, the reality remains: only about 52% of children aged 0–14 living with HIV are on treatment compared to 76% of adults

The Alliance is a response to decades of underinvestment and fragmented efforts to address paediatric and adolescent HIV. It builds on past initiatives like the Global Plan and the Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free (3-Frees) Partnership while centring affected communities and countries as co-leaders of the solution.

The Global Alliance four pillars of action

1

Early testing and optimized
comprehensive, high quality
treatment and care for infants, children, and adolescents living with and children exposed to HIV

2

Closing the treatment gap for pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV and optimizing continuity of
treatment towards the goal of elimination of vertical transmission

3
Preventing and detecting new HIV infections among pregnant and breastfeeding adolescents and women
4

Addressing rights, gender equality and the social and structural barriers that hinder access to services

PATA’s Role in the Global Alliance

Paediatric-Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA) is a committed member of the Global Alliance, serving on both the Global and Regional Steering Committees. Through these roles, PATA contributes to shaping the Alliance’s overall vision, strategic direction, and accountability processes. But our work goes further. PATA actively supports the monthly Country Consultation Working Group Meetings focused on Pillars 1-4 in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region. The technical working groups, under each of the pillars brings together national ministries of health, civil society, community voices, implementing partners, and other key stakeholders that drive early infant diagnosis, improve paediatric /adolescents treatment coverage and retention in care, prevent HIV transmission and undertake, across all pillars to advance access to quality services that are rights-based, stigma free, promote gender equality and address societal structural barriers whilst strengthening clinic-community collaboration.

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