BACKGROUND :

. As a model for shared responsibility in the response to a complex disease, the AIDS response provides a model for understanding the political economic and social determinants of a health threat, developing system approaches to addressing the challenges that a complex health problem poses, and for reforming governance and the political context in which health is set. This session will present specific examples, the triumphs and the impediments in the AIDS response that addressed the complex and inter-related issues in the political economy of a specific global health threat and expand these lessons to the new and complex landscape of NCDs, that can serve as a pathway to achieving UHC.