A/HRC/32/25 32. Panellists urged States to take a stand against economic and political pressure and to put people first, combining the elimination of punitive laws against the groups most at risk with increased funding of human rights-based approaches and with access to the necessary medicines, science and technologies. They noted that access to science and technology was a global issue that required international cooperation. To make the aims of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 90-90-90 treatment target3 attainable, it would be essential for the international community to cooperate in order to bring about access to new technologies. Affordability and access to medicines were major challenges to ending AIDS and other global epidemics. Panellists urged States to be bold and make use of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement flexibilities. They noted that TRIPS plus agreements should be discontinued as they hampered access to medicines, and they underlined the importance of the work of the High-level Panel on Access to Medicines. 33. The panellists emphasized that the Sustainable Development Goals called for integrated and holistic approaches, and that such approaches would be indispensable to the realization of universal health coverage. They noted that the present crisis in health systems and in access to treatment was also an opportunity for the AIDS response to be strengthened through universal health coverage delivered on the basis of accountability, solidarity and collaboration, in which the priority was for no one to be left behind. IV. Summary recommendations for the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS 34. In its resolution 30/8, the Human Rights Council invited the General Assembly to take the present report into consideration ahead of and during the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS to take place in 2016.4 In addition, Assembly resolution 70/228 highlighted the importance of the contribution of the Human Rights Council to the high-level meeting. Accordingly, the present summary of recommendations is intended to support the commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 and to contribute to the discussions during the high-level meeting. 35. It was emphasized at the panel discussion that HIV/AIDS remained among the greatest challenges of our time, and that the lives of human beings and respect for human dignity were at stake. Today, there was a historic opportunity that could not be missed, to put an end to AIDS within our lifetimes. The international community had made great progress in the fight to end HIV/AIDS, but much more needed to be done both individually and collectively. Progress to date had been uneven, and the current challenge was to reach the many who were still being left behind. Efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS had, to date, proved most effective when they were rights-based. Moreover, it was a matter of respect for human dignity that the HIV/AIDS response should, at all levels, be designed to tackle the stigma, discrimination and violence that continued to drive the spread of the epidemic. The panel stressed that the world would not succeed in ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 without renewed commitments and efforts to address the legal and human rights barriers that made people vulnerable to HIV and blocked effective responses to the epidemic. Five salient points were highlighted in these respects: 3 4 10 See http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/90-90-90_en_0.pdf. See Human Rights Council resolution 30/8 and General Assembly decision 68/555.