- About UNAIDS
- Our work
- Targets and commitments
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
- Avoiding TB deaths
- Closing the resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
More Civil Society and Private Sector Division Feature Stories
- Gender and AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa
- Empowerment of women and promotion of gender equality were underlined as critical to reducing vulnerability to HIV in the Middle East and North Africa [MENA] at a recent gathering of experts in the region.
- UNAIDS and Indian business giant to link up for AIDS
- UNAIDS and India’s largest private company, Reliance Industries Limited, are working to strengthen collaboration on AIDS issues with the aim of promoting greater access to HIV information, prevention and treatment services across India
- Caribbean faith leaders respond to AIDS
- The two-day forum, held in Barbados, brought together more than 130 religious leaders in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean to discuss inclusion and human sexuality in the context of AIDS. The Forum was organised by the Barbados Evangelical Association (BEA) with the National HIV/AIDS Commission and UNAIDS.
- Third Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS
- In efforts to further strengthen the response to the epidemic in the region, the Australian Agency for International Development, AusAID, and the Asia Pacific Business Coalition Against AIDS, APBCA, brought together business and government representatives and Ministers for the Third Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS.
- Lesotho’s church leaders step up AIDS response
- Fifteen prominent church leaders in Lesotho have signed a statement of commitment on AIDS, pledging to confront the epidemic and to support people living with HIV in a united front.
- Planting trees for AIDS in China
- Two issues of global importance, AIDS and the environment, were highlighted during a symbolic tree planting event led by organisations of people living with HIV in China.
- Grameenphone telecommunications joins forces with UNAIDS
- Bangladesh’s leading telecommunications service provider, Grameenphone Ltd has joined forces with UNAIDS to drive forward advocacy and awareness raising on AIDS issues, as part of the work of the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on AIDS (APLF) in Bangladesh.
- UN Plus meets UN Secretary General - Photo Gallery
- As part of the 61st session of the General Assembly, UN Plus– the UN system-wide group of staff living with HIV– met with the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to brief him on the key achievements of the group since its inception in March 2005 and to discuss the opportunities and challenges that UN positive staff face at work.
- UN Plus meets UN Secretary General
- UN Plus– the UN system-wide group of staff living with HIV– met with the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to brief him on the key achievements of the group since its inception in March 2005 and to discuss the opportunities and challenges and limitations that UN positive staff face at work.
- Haiti: UNAIDS strengthening partnerships to ‘make the money work’
- In Haiti, UNAIDS and the Fondation SOGEBANK – the Global Fund’s principal recipient in the country – kick off a series of initiatives to help develop a multi-sectoral AIDS response in the country with an event to encourage action from the business sector.
- Supporting people living with HIV in China
- In 2005 UNAIDS estimated that there were close to 650,000 people living with HIV in China, a country which has many factors that could lead to a rapid spread of the epidemic; high mobility, large-scale labour migration, high numbers of sex workers, low condom use, a large number of people who inject drugs, low overall awareness of AIDS as well as severe stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV.
- UNAIDS acts to strengthen ‘GIPA’ with new policy
- Supporting the active engagement of people living with HIV in the AIDS response is one of UNAIDS’ most important goals.
- Fashionable jobs for people living with HIV
- The Algerian association of people living with HIV, El Hayet, has launched a pilot project to help people living with HIV get back into the workplace.
- Getting involved is good for business
- Bill Roedy, President of MTV Networks International and UNAIDS Special Representative talks to the Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria John Tedstrom about media's involvement in the AIDS response.
- A faith-based response to HIV in southern Africa
- A recent study on the faith-based response to HIV in southern Africa has been published as part of the UNAIDS Best Practice Collection as an example of how a coordinated response to the epidemic has increased HIV prevention education, care and support to communities affected by AIDS as well as complementing governments’ efforts to curb the epidemic.
- Ambitious targets set in Malawi
- The involvement of civil society in the process of setting targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support has resulted in ambitious targets addressing the needs and expectations of those living with or affected by HIV.
- Buddhist Monks raise AIDS awareness in Laos
- Every morning Buddhist Monk Maytryjit gets up at 3:45 am to meditate for one hour. Afterwards, he walks through the streets of Vientiane in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic to collect his food alms.
- How business could succeed in scaling up the business response to AIDS in Africa
- In the first ever study of its kind, “The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa” shows how 27 countries are supporting businesses in addressing HIV/AIDS.
- Church strengthens role in AIDS response
- The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches released a strong statement on AIDS when they met earlier this month in Geneva to decide on programme plans and a renewed organizational structure
- China’s Olympic effort to raise AIDS awareness
- As China builds stadiums and amenities across the country to host the 2008 Olympic games, a parallel initiative is taking place to raise awareness about HIV among the thousands of construction workers involved in preparing Beijing for the Olympics.