Youth Next Level is a suite of resources that provides concrete guidance and recommendations on how to effectively support the scale-up of youth-led HIV responses and accelerate the achievement of Result Area 7 of the Global AIDS Strategy and the 30-80-60 community leadership targets of the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.

UNAIDS convened a multistakeholder task team and held an expert meeting in June 2019 to develop definitions of community-led organizations and responses (as well as key population-led organizations and responses). The meeting brought together representatives of people living with HIV, young people, gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, people who use drugs, women’s organizations, treatment activists, and people living with tuberculosis to discuss, develop and 2 “Older people should not speak on young people’s behalf or take up young people’s space just because they ‘used to be young people themselves’.” —Legee Tamir, Project and Networking Officer, Youth LEAD regional network, Mongolia validate the definitions. “Community-led” was understood as an umbrella definition, inclusive of the leadership of people living with HIV, people from key populations, women, youth and people from other self-organized groups.