The United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) contribution to the global response to AIDS is shaped by its mandate to reduce poverty, eliminate gender inequality and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health.
As a Cosponsor of UNAIDS and under the UNAIDS division of labour, UNFPA focuses its response on HIV prevention among young people, women and marginalized groups, including within the context of sex work. It supports comprehensive programming for male and female condoms and advocates for the linking and integration of sexual and reproductive health and HIV policies, programmes and services. It aims to make sure that family planning and maternal health services meet the needs of women living with HIV. This includes interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission and support for confidential voluntary HIV testing and counselling.
UNFPA also works in many contexts, including humanitarian and post-conflict situations, toward the elimination of gender-based violence. In addition, it provides demographic and socio-cultural support to guide programme and policy development.
Sexual and reproductive health
- Sexual & Reproductive Health and HIV: Evidence review and recommendations (WHO/UNFPA/IPFF/UCSF/UNAIDS, 2009)
- Rapid Assessment Tool for Sexual & Reproductive Health and HIV Linkages (WHO/UNFPA/IPFF/GNP+/ICW/Young Positives/UNAIDS, 2009)
- More publications
State of the World Population
The State of the World Population is the flagship report of the United Nations Population Fund. In 2010 the report focused on the impact of war on women and efforts to engage women in peacebuilding. More
Women, girls and gender-based violence
- Beijing at 15: UNFPA and partners charting the way forward (UNFPA, 2010)
- Programming to Address Violence Against Women (UNFPA, 2009)
- Addressing gender-based violence (UNFPA, 2009)
- More publications on gender equality
UNAIDS IATT on HIV and Young People
UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on HIV and Young People is convened by UNFPA. It was created in 2001 to support an accelerated, harmonized and expanded global, regional and country-level response to increase young people's utilization of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services. More
Contact
UNFPA
220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 USA
Email: hiv@unfpa.org
Learn more
Visit the UNFPA web site to learn more about its response to HIV.
UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”
