WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. Its objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
WHO is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
As a UNAIDS Cosponsor, WHO leads the health sector response to HIV/AIDS. WHO supports the scale-up of national HIV/AIDS treatment and care programmes while accelerating HIV prevention and strengthening health systems so that the health sector response to the epidemic is more effective and comprehensive.
Under the UNAIDS division of labour, WHO also takes the lead on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, HIV prevention in healthcare settings, HIV testing and counselling and linkages between HIV prevention and reatment, and HIV and tuberculosis control.
Prevention in the health sector
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Health systems and HIV
WHO: Kesho Bora ‘A better future’
New evidence shows triple antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding can significantly reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. More
Contact
WHO HIV/AIDS Department
20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Email: hiv-aids@who.int
Learn more
Visit the WHO web site for more information on its response to HIV. More
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.”
