Office of Cosponsor Relations and Governance

UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB)

• Programme Coordinating Board (PCB)
• NGO/civil society participation in PCB
• Upcoming meeting of the PCB
• PCB meeting archive
• Committee of Cosponsor Organizations  
• UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Bureau  

General Assembly of the United Nations

Through a series of goals, resolutions and declarations adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the world has a set of commitments, actions and goals to stop and reverse the spread of HIV and scale up towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services.

• General Assembly of the United Nations, New York
• Progress made in the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS  (Report of the Secretary-General, 2010) 
• 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
• Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS 2006

UNAIDS Governance Handbook

The The Governance Handbook is collection of key documents pertaining to the governance of UNAIDS including the founding ECOSOC resolutions, Memoranda of Understanding between the Secretariat and Cosponsoring organizations, and key Political Declarations related to HIV.

Millennium Development Goals

In 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders at United Nations Headquarters in New York adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. Goal 6 of the Millennium Development Goals sets out by 2015 to have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV. More

UNAIDS Cosponsors

UNAIDS brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations: UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, and the World Bank. More

UN Security Council Resolution 1308

In 2000 the UN Security Council for the first time debated a health issue—AIDS. Resolution 1308 highlights the AIDS and emergency situations and potential damaging impact of HIV on the health of international peacekeeping personnel. More

Second Independent Evaluation of UNAIDS

The Second Independent Evaluation (SIE) was commissioned by the UNAIDS PCB in 2007 to: “Assess the efficacy, effectiveness and outcomes of UNAIDS (including the UNAIDS Secretariat, the PCB and the Cosponsors) at global, regional and country levels.”

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• Implementation plan  
• PCB Task Force on SIE follow-up related to all aspects of governance

ECOSOC

The United Nations Economic and Social council (ECOSOC) was established under the United Nations Charter as the principal organ to coordinate economic, social, and related work of the 14 UN specialized agencies, functional commissions and five regional commissions. The Council also receives reports from 11 UN funds and programmes. More