- 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
- Getting the message across: the mass media and the response to AIDS
- The three case studies in this report are examples of what can be achieved when the media are used creatively towards positive outcomes. They offer lessons from experi-ence that will be of value to people everywhere who are interested in harnessing the power of the mass media to help in the response to AIDS.
- Intensifying HIV prevention. UNAIDS policy position paper
- The primary goal of this policy position paper is to energize and mobilize an intensification of HIV prevention with an ultimate aim of universal access to HIV prevention and treatment. The paper defines the central actions that must be taken to arrest the spread of new HIV infections. It identifies what needs to be done to speedily and effectively bridge the HIV prevention gap, building on synergies between HIV prevention and care, and to ensure the sustainability of HIV treatment scale-up in the present context. It highlights the role of UNAIDS, in relation to intensifying HIV prevention and points the ways in which jointly supportive action can be achieved. This paper is directed towards all those who have a leadership role in HIV prevention, treatment and care.
- Strategies to support the HIV-related needs of refugees and host populations
- In this study, UNHCR and UNAIDS seek to inform and support key decision-makers on HIV-related issues facing refugees, other populations of concern to UNHCR, and the populations of host countries. The content of this document focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, but the concepts discussed are applicable to refugee situations outside this region.
- GUIDELINES for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings
- The Guidelines for HIVAIDS interventions in emergency settings provide valuable information for organizations and individuals involved in developing responses to HIVIAIDS during crises. Topics covered include: Prevention and preparednessResponding to sexual violence and exploitationFood aid and distributionSafe blood supplyCondom supply and usageSpecial groups: women and children, orphans, uniformed servicespersonnel, refugeesSafe deliveriesUniversal precautionsPost exposure prophylaxisWorkplace issues, andHandling discrimination The Guidelines include a Matrix, designed to present response information in a simplified chart, which can be photocopied readily for use in emergency situations. The Guidelines also include a companion CD-ROM, which provides all the information in the printed Guidelines document, as well as documents in electronic format (AcrobatIPDF, Word, HTML). Designed for ease of use, the CD-ROM launches automatically on most computers, and uses simple browser-style navigation. Published by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the Guidelines give responders a versatile tool for quickly and easily accessing the latest information on HIVIAIDS in emergency settings.
- UNAIDS Unified Budget and Workplan 2006–2007
- The vision that led to the creation of UNAIDS was that the UN would be more effective in facing the exceptional challenges posed by AIDS if its institutions worked together in a more coordinated and coherent way. The Unified Budget and Workplan has been instrumental in moving UNAIDS towards this vision. It provides an overall framework for the entire range of action on AIDS by the UNAIDS Cosponsors and the Secretariat, but is fexible enough to respond to the ever evolving AIDS epidemic. The Unified Budget and Workplan sets out the specific commitments of each part of the Joint Programme, including the results each Cosponsor and the Secretariat will seek to achieve, matched with resource requirements.
- HIV-related Stigma, Discrimination and Human Rights Violations
- HIV-related stigma and discrimination and human rights violations constitute great barriers to preventing HIV infection; providing care, support and treatment; and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
- Making the money work through greater UN support for AIDS responses. The 2006-2007 Consolidated UN Technical Support Plan for AIDS
- A Consolidated UN Technical Support Plan for AIDS has been developed to accelerate and improve implementation of global funding initiatives and thus “make the money work”. It addresses many of the weaknesses of the prevailing technical support system. Based on the comparative advantages of the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat, the Plan anticipates the technical support required by 45 high-priority countries1 during 2006-2007 and provides a ‘menu’ of UN-provided or UN-facilitated interventions available to countries to scale up their national response to AIDS.
- UNAIDS Technical Support Division of Labour Summary & Rationale
- This Summary document outlines the new approach to the technical-support division of labour, which complements a number of other initiatives underway to reinforce the rational division of labour within UNAIDS at global and country levels.UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors were tasked with using this framework to develop a Consolidated UN Technical Support Plan for AIDS (2006-2007). This will become an iterative process undertaken by the Global Joint Problem-Solving and Implementation Support Team (GIST).
- Evaluation of the UNAIDS/UNITAR AIDS Competence Programme
- This evaluation measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the AIDS Competence Programme’s process and outcomes. The evaluation’s approach relies both on methods used in AIDS programme evaluations, and accepted sociological evaluation methods that define community capacity or the individual capacity (i.e.,economic, social, pedagogical and politically related outcomes).
- Monitoring the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS Guidelines on Construction of Core Indicators
- The purpose of these guidelines is to provide National AIDS Councils (or equivalent) with technical guidance on how to measure the revised list of core indicators for the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted by Member States of the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001. These guidelines provide technical guidance on the detailed specifi cations of the core indicators, on the information required and the basis of their construction, and on their interpretation. The guidelines also aim to maximize the validity, internal consistency and comparability across countries and over time of the indicator estimates obtained. In particular, the guidelines aim to ensure consistency in the types of data and methods of calculation employed.
- Expanding access to HIV treatment through community-based organizations
- This UNAIDS Best Practice Collection publication is intended as a resource for civil society, groups of people living with HIV, national programme managers, international and national policy-makers and donors to better appreciate and support the concept of involving more community-based organizations in national plans for providing HIV care and treatment. In 2004, the nongovernmental organization, Sidaction, with support from UNAIDS and WHO, conducted a survey of the community response to HIV treatment needs in Africa. The document describes the self-reported experiences and achievements of community-based organizations already involved in providing care; this Best Practice provides strategic information on some of the needs, challenges and opportunities that are specifi c to community-based organizations in scaling up access to care and treatment; it demonstrates the current and potential value of their work and suggests ways forward to assess, support, and enlarge the scope and impact of that work. It is hoped that this Best Practice will inspire other countries and regions to replicate the untiring work of African community-based organizations, as well as demonstrate to both policy makers and donors the valuable contributions of civil society to the response to the AIDS epidemic, especially with regards to provision of care and treatment. This survey was the fi rst attempt to map and describe the contributions made by community groups, including those founded by persons living with HIV, in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy. Urgent and ongoing support to their efforts, in the context of a viable public health response, is a critical part of an effective and comprehensive response to HIV.
- Resource needs for an expanded response to AIDS in low- and middle-income countries
- Report on estimates of resource requirements for HIV prevention, treatment and care; support for orphans and vulnerable children; programme and human resource costs.
- Global Task Team Report
- Improving AIDS Coordination Among Multilateral Institutions and International Donors
- The “Three Ones” in action : where we are and where we go from here
- This report looks at progress on applying the “Three Ones” principles to the end of 2004, and identifies the challenges ahead as well as opportunities for overcoming these challenges. While this preliminary report is by no means comprehensive, it is a very useful step forward in helping us find answers to a question that must preoccupy all of us: How can we, individually and collectively, make optimal use of the limited resources available for tackling the AIDS pandemic, an unprecedented global crisis, and so accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals?
- Resource Guide for UN Theme Groups on HIV/AIDS
- UN Organizations are increasingly being challenged to demonstrate their relevance as well as their ability to work together and make the best use of their collective resources. More than ever, therefore, the spotlight is on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its contribution to the AIDS effort at the country level, and on the performance of UN Theme Groups on HIV/AIDS.
- A Report of a Theological Workshop Focusing on HIV- and AIDS-related Stigma
- In December 2003 UNAIDS supported a workshop on HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination. This brought together 37 leading academic theologians from different Christian traditions and countries, to consider and debate the major theological issues that contribute to and can help eradicate stigma related to HIV and AIDS, to engage in dialogue with people living with HIV and to provide a framework for theological refl ection. This report of the workshop contains the framework for theological refl ection and the related speeches presented at the workshop.
- The need for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings
- For many years, humanitarian and relief organizations did not see HIV as a priority in emergencies, focusing their attention on lifesaving measures such as the provision of health care, water, food and shelter. HIV was not seen as a direct threat to life, nor was the need to address HIV/AIDS as a long-term development issue fully understood. With the evidence of the HIV/AIDS dimension in the recent southern Africa crisis this perception is now changing. Coordinated responses to increased HIV vulnerability in emergency settings are starting to be integrated into humanitarian and relief agency workplans at the earliest possible stage of an emergency.