- 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
- HIV/AIDS, Stand up for Human Rights (cartoon)
- The cartoon, launched by the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Joint Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO), is designed to empower young people to promote human rights.
- Directions for the future: Unifying and intensifying country support
- This document is an operational tool that has been developed by the Country and Regional Support Department (CRD) in order to pursue actions recommended by the PCB. The document provides a comprehensive framework for strategic management. It includes a listing of strategic objectives of the Department, 13 key results to be achieved, priority countries, major activities, monitoring and reporting indicators and the budget of the Department. The overall goal of CRD is to scale up national responses to HIV/AIDS. This document offers a road map for the future directions of CRD in its efforts to achieve that goal.
- HIV and infant feeding : a policy statement developed collaboratively by UNAIDS, UNICEF and WHO
- The number of infants born with HIV infection increases every day. The vast majority of these children are infected through their mothers. Given the vital importance of breastfeeding to a child’s health, and the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding, the development of policies on HIV infection and infant feeding is crucial. This document provides policy-makers with key elements for the creation of the aforementioned policies, such as promoting and supporting breastfeeding, improving access to HIV counselling and testing, and preventing commercial pressures for artificial feeding. It also highlights the prevention of HIV infection in women through the promotion of safer sex and the adequate treatment of sexually transmitted infections.
- Engaging Uniformed Services in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
- Implementing HIV/AIDS/STI peer education
- Young people and HIV/AIDS : Opportunity in crisis
- This report contains important new data about why young people are key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including results from more than 60 new national surveys. It reaffirms that we must accord top priority to making investments in the well-being of young people and to engaging them in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
- Facing the challenges of HIV/AIDS/STDS : a gender-based response
- First part of the booklet ‘Facing the challenges of HIV/AIDS/STDS: a gender-based response’. These four chapters investigate the question of gender and HIV/AIDS, asking why women are more affected by HIV/AIDS than men, and discussing the requirements of a gender-based response.
- On the front line : a review of policies and programmes to address HIV/AIDS among peacekeepers and uniformed services
- This paper is a desk review of policies and programmes being undertaken to address AIDS among the uniformed services around the world. It provides an overview of the actions taken by the UNAIDS Office on AIDS, Security and Humanitarian Response (SHR) to support countries in meeting their commitments.
- Progress report on the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 2003 : follow-up to the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
- Yet this report also underscores the challenges that face us. Despite a wealth of information on proven interventions, HIV prevention coverage is extremely low. Fundamental prevention interventions, such as access to voluntary HIV counselling and testing, are only available to one in nine individuals in developing countries and less than one in twenty pregnant women are able to access services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus. A majority of countries worldwide have no legal protection in place to prohibit discrimination against vulnerable populations, and more than one-half of countries in sub-Saharan Africa do not have laws to prevent discrimination on the basis of a person’s HIV-positive status. In sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 4 million people could immediately benefit from antiretroviral therapy, only about 50,000 (or about 1% of those in need) currently have access to such medications.
- Fighting AIDS: HIV/AIDS prevention and care among armed forces and UN peacekeepers. The case of Eritrea
- This is the first of a series of case studies on AIDS and uniformed services, Eritrea was selected by UNAIDS because it represents a unique environment where the important role of national and international uniformed services in the fight against AIDS can be demonstrated.
- Accelerating action against AIDS in Africa
- This report provides a snapshot of the action being taken across the African continent in response to the challenge of AIDS. It highlights governments working with all their ministries to deliver a full-scale response. It demonstrates progress in closing the gaps in the provision of HIV prevention and treatment. It shows the value of partnership between government, communities and businesses. It showcases the determination of African women to throw off the disproportionate burden that AIDS represents for them. And it makes manifest the voice of hope, in the many successful responses by young people in fighting the epidemic.
- Progress report on the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 2003 : follow-up to the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS : executive summary
- Over the last year, the UNAIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Unit has worked with countries and other actors to collect data needed to establish both monitoring baselines for each indicator and mechanisms for collecting information on an ongoing basis.
- HIV/AIDS : it's your business
- Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, said in a speech in June 2001: ‘‘It is high time we tapped the strengths of the business sector to the full. AIDS affects business. The spread of the pandemic has caused business costs to expand, and markets to shrink. As both the current balance sheet and future indicators show, the business community needs to get involved to protect its bottom line…”
- Where there's a will, there's a way: nursing and midwifery, champions of HIV/AIDS care in Southern Africa
- HIV/AIDS needs champions—and nurses and midwives need recognition—for providing care and support to people living with IV/AIDS, their families and communities. This publication describes nursing and midwifery champions in HIV/AIDS care in Southern Africa, who, with singular commitment and resourcefulness, are delivering good-quality care in spite of innumerable obstacles and constraints. They carry a heavy burden, and they know the meaning of the expression, “where there’s a will there’s a way”. UNAIDS and the SADC AIDS Network of Nurses and Midwives (SANNAM) celebrate just a few of the many thousands of champions who are on the front lines of care and treatment, many times feeling the sadness, shame and anger of having so little to offer. In describing the work of a few, the intention is to pay tribute to all who are doing a caring, committed job in the face of great odds, and to share the valuable lessons they have learned from experience. In addition to being of value to nurses and midwives, this report is also aimed at all those with an interest in improving the quality of care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS—especially those responsible for training, managing and supervising nursing and midwifery staff, and policy-makers within health-care services.
- GUIDELINES ON CONSTRUCTION OF CORE INDICATORS
- Monitoring the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
- Handbook on access to HIV/AIDS-related treatment : a collection of information, tools and resources for NGOs, CBOs and PLWHA groups
- Drawing on the broad experience of UNAIDS, WHO and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, the Handbook on access to HIV/AIDS-related treatment provides nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations and groups of people living with HIV/AIDS with a practical resource for responding to issues of access to treatment for HIV/AIDS in developing countries. The handbook will: build practical skills among NGOs, CBOs and PLWHA groups by using participatory activities and sharing experiences; provide a training resource for NGO support programmes, training organizations and individuals; facilitate ongoing learning about the HIV/AIDS-related treatment work of NGOs, CBOs and PLWHA groups. The handbook is intended to assist groups in finding ways of understanding, planning and undertaking work on HIV/AIDS related treatment. It is suitable for use with people of varying levels of experience and offers flexibility to facilitators who need to gear their work towards specific schedules and situations.
- Reaching out, scaling up : eight case studies of home and community care for and by people with HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Case Study
- The theme of this report, Reaching out, scaling up, reflects a concern that has become increasingly important in the past few years. All too often, good local-level responses to HIV/AIDS—best practices, in other words—have remained local and small-scale. The many lessons learned have not been translated into bigger projects or wider coverage.
- HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, International Guidelines. Revised Guideline 6 : access to prevention, treatment, care and support
- Commentary and recommendations for the implementation of Guideline 6: “States should enact legislation to provide for the regulation of HIV-related goods, services and information, so as to ensure widespread availability of qualitative prevention measures and services, adequate HIV prevention and care information, and safe and effective medication at an affordable price…”
- Country Response Information System : overview of the system and its plan of establishment
- Improved information and informed analysis are critical for the development of expanded national responses to AIDS. Some countries have developed HIV surveillance systems and countries are increasingly collecting information on resources allocated for AIDS programmes and projects. Responding to the needs at the national and global levels for improved information and analysis, UNAIDS has embarked on an ambitious plan to establish an information system to support national AIDS responses. This document describes the historical development of the Country Response Information System (CRIS), and the related activities undertaken by UNAIDS in 2002 and 2003.
- AIDS and STI prevention and care in Rwandan refugee camps in the United Republic of Tanzania
- This document examines the first large-scale HIV/AIDS/STI intervention programme to be implemented during a refugee crisis. It describes the intervention’s operational aspects, the observed impact and the effect this experience had on practices in other refugee situations, among both international and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It provides insights into the approaches for STI services that will be useful for reproductive health programme managers, as well as NGOs involved in relief operations. It will also be useful for district or regional health managers in identifying needed support systems for STI service delivery.
- World AIDS Campaign 2002–2003. A conceptual framework and basis for action : HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination
- The World AIDS Campaign for the years 2002–2003 will focus on stigma and discrimination. The main objective of the campaign is to prevent, reduce and ultimately eliminate HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, wherever it occurs and in all its forms. Stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS are the greatest barriers to preventing further infections, providing adequate care, support and treatment and alleviating impact. Self-stigmatization, or the shame that people living with HIV/AIDS experience when they internalize the negative responses and reactions of others can lead to depression, withdrawal and feelings of worthlessness. Discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS, or presumed to be infected is a violation of human rights. All individuals have a right to equal respect and dignity, whatever their health status. The aim of this conceptual framework is to: create a common understanding of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination; highlight some existing interventions targeting HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, and contribute to effective ways of preventing stigma and challenging discrimination when it occurs, and monitoring and redressing human rights violations.