- 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
Documents
- Tuberculosis and AIDS
- The growing epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has breathed new life into an old enemy – tuberculosis. The HIV epidemic spurs the spread of TB and increases the tuberculosis risk for the whole population. For those who are HIV-positive, the TB risk is especially great and the outcome often fatal.
- Blood Safety and AIDS
- Blood transfusions save millions of lives each year, but in places where a safe blood supply is not guaranteed, those receiving transfused blood have an increased risk of being infected with HIV
- Women and AIDS
- Women continue to make strides towards equality with men. Wherever they are educated, able to generate income, and enjoy equal protection under the law, they are in a position to have some control over their economic, social and personal life. Yet for millions of women, these goals are still remote. These are the women who are the most vulnerable to infection with HIV, the virus that results in AIDS.
- Learning and teaching about AIDS at school
- Young people are especially vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). They are also vulnerable as regards drug use (and not just injected drugs). Even if they are not engaging in risk behaviors today, they may soon be exposed to situations that put them at risk. Very often they cannot talk easily or at all about AIDS, or about the risk behaviors that can lead to HIV infection, at home or in their community. However, most of them do attend school at some point, and school is an entry point where these topics – often difficult to discuss elsewhere - can be addressed.
- Refugees and AIDS: UNAIDS Technical update
- In an emergency, the most immediate concern of relief workers is to save people at risk of imminent death from injury, starvation, exposure, or disease. In the past, this concern has largely dictated priorities for action. Since the last 1970’s and early 1980’s, a new threat has arisen – AIDS.
- Integrating HIV/STD prevention in the school setting
- Young people (10 to 24 years) are estimated to account for up to 60% of all new HIV infections worldwide. Many young people can be reached relatively easily through schools; no other institutional system can compete in terms of number of young people served. Prevention and health promotion programmes should extend to the whole school setting, including students, teachers and other school personnel, parents, the community around the school, as well as school systems. Such activities are a key component of national programmes to improve the health and development of children and adolescents.
- Refugees and AIDS : UNAIDS point of view
- This paper discusses the precarious existence of refugees and why HIV/AIDS is such a critical factor to them (a lack of a safe blood supply, the emergence of prostitution in exchange for food and other essentials, and an insufficient supply of condoms and health care). The report also documents various facts and figures, and offers suggestions as to how issues regarding refugees and AIDS can be handled.
- Prisons and AIDS: UNAIDS Technical update
- In many prisons around the world there is a much higher prevalence of HIV than there is in society outside. There is usually also a much higher rate of certain other diseases, such as hepatitis B and C, syphilis and tuberculosis. Experience has shown that there is a lot that can be done to check the spread of HIV, but for that to occur, those responsible for the prison system must first recognize certain risk factors and forms of behaviour in prisons.
- Prisons and AIDS: UNAIDS Point of view
- The AIDS virus has been found in prisons in most countries of the world. This should be a source of the utmost concern -- not only for prisoners and prison staff, but for society in general.
- Community Mobilization and AIDS
- Community-level action - much of it initiated by persons infected or affected by HIV - has always played a major role in the global response to AIDS. In many countries, community response came before the official national response. It has proved essential to many components os a successful national response- most notably awareness prevention policy and legal changes impact alleviation advocacy and family or community care and support.