UNODC is a global leader in the struggle against illicit drugs and transnational organized crime. It is committed to achieving health, security and justice for all by tackling such global threats, and by delivering legal and technical assistance to prevent terrorism.
As a Cosponsor of UNAIDS and under the UNAIDS division of labour, UNODC is the lead agency for addressing HIV prevention, treatment, care and support among drug users and in prison settings. It is also responsible for facilitating the development of a United Nations response to HIV associated with human trafficking.
In these areas, UNODC assists countries to provide drug users, prisoners and people vulnerable to human trafficking with comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services following strategies which are human rights based, evidence informed and gender sensitive. It also provides technical assistance to countries to review and adapt HIV, illicit drugs and criminal justice policies and legislation and builds capacity of national stakeholders, including civil societies and community organizations, to ensure optimum coverage of these population groups with HIV services.
HIV and Prison settings
- HIV testing and counselling in prisons and other closed settings (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2009)
- HIV and AIDS in places of detention: A toolkit (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2008)
- HIV/AIDS Prevention, care, treatment and support in prison settings: a framework for an effective national response (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2006)
- UNODC/UNAIDS Publication on Women and HIV in Prison Settings
- HIV and Prisons in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunity for action (UNODC, 2007)
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- More UNODC publications
- More WHO UNODC UNAIDS publication on HIV in prisons
HIV and drug use
- Collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting drug users: Policy guidelines (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2008)
- Guide to starting and managing needle and syringe programmes (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2007)
- Substitution maintenance therapy in the management of opioid dependence and HIV/AIDS prevention: Position paper (UNODC/UNAIDS/WHO, 2006)
- Reduction of HIV transmission through drug-dependence treatment: Policy brief (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2004)
- HIV/AIDS prevention among injecting drug users: Advocacy guide (UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS, 2004)
- More UNODC publications
Contact
UNODC
Vienna International Centre, Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400
Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 26060 5549
E-Mail: aids@unodc.org
Learn more
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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.”
