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- 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
- AIDS in Africa: Three scenarios to 2025
- This project uses stories rather than projections to explore the future of AIDS in Africa over the next 20 years. Statistics may give a succinct and tragic snapshot of recent events, but they say little of the AIDS epidemic’s wider context, or its complex interconnections with other major issues, such as economic development, human security, peace, and violence. Statistics can only hint at the future.
- Epidemic Update December 2006
- UNAIDS/WHO Epidemic Update December
- Access to treatment in the private-sector workplace The provision of antiretroviral therapy by three companies in South Africa
- Access to treatment in the private-sector workplace; the provision of antiretroviral therapy by three companies in South AfricaAntiretroviral therapy (ART) is having a huge impact on the lives of those who have access to it. For them, AIDS has become a manageable condition rather than a death sentence. However, for the vast majority of people living with HIV, nothing has changed because neither they nor their countries’ health-care systems can afford to pay for antiretroviral therapy.One source of hope comes from the business sector. The workplace—both private and public—provides many opportunities for extending access to treatment, through occupational health schemes and health insurance schemes. A number of companies now have experience in providing antiretroviral therapy for their employees (and, in some cases, also for dependants). Given the impact of the epidemic, there is a clear economic advantage for companies in offering employees access to treatment and in demonstrating a strong corporate responsibility.After a brief description of the important components of workplace programmes on HIV/AIDS, this case study features three companies in South Africa that are providing antiretroviral therapy to their employees: AngloAmerican, BHP Billiton and Eskom. Detailed descriptions are given of the companies’ antiretroviral therapy and care-and-support programmes, with an analysis of their differing approaches and shared challenges. Public health provision should be strengthened, not undermined, by the contribution of the private sector to HIV and AIDS treatment. The companies profi led in this report are working with government, communities and civil society to extend treatment nationwide, through various projects and programmes and by setting an example of sustainable access to treatment and care.
- International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
- Offi ce of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Collaborating with Traditional Healers for HIV Prevention and Care in sub-Saharan Africa: suggestions for Programme Managers and Field Workers
- These Guidelines are designed to assist government officials, policy-makers, programme managers, trainers, and health workers in bridging the gap between traditional and biomedical health systems or in scaling up existing initiatives. The Guidelines will help those concerned to envision, plan, design, implement, evaluate and scale up initiatives that involve collaborating with traditional healers for HIV transmission prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa. The ultimate goal of this effort is to improve access to, and quality of, health services for the clients of both systems.
- AIDS in Africa: Three scenarios to 2025 (Executive summary)
- This book is about AIDS and Africa, and the world’s response to both, and presents three stories describing possible futures.
- HIV and Men who have sex with men in Asia and Pacific
- Cover pictures: UNAIDS / F. Sanchez UNAIDS/06.25E (English original, September 2006)
- Setting National Targets for Moving Towards Universal Access
- This document provides operational guidance to country-level partners and UN staff to facilitate the next phase of the country-level consultative process on scaling up towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support services. It concerns the setting of ambitious targets for the national HIV response to achieve by 2008 and 2010, and builds on previous guidelines.
- Empowering Women, Fighting Aids
- "All AIDS strategies should pass the test: does this work for women?"
- Newsletter: The Global Coalition of women and AIDS – issue 5
- The AIDS epidemic is taking a devastating toll on families and communities worldwide. In its wake lies a growing burden of caring for the sick, the dying, and those left behind. In countries hardest hit, most of the care for people living with HIV takes place in the home, and up to 90% of that is provided by women and girls.
- Intensifying HIV prevention
- Evidence and knowledge base suggests that a certain number of programmatic actions are essential if HIV prevention is to be effectively taken to scale. These actions need to be adapted and prioritized, depending upon the context, evolving nature of local epidemics, national priorities and legal frameworks.
- High Coverage Sites: HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users in Transitional and Developing Countries
- UNAIDS commissioned this report to investigate programmes and sites in low-income and transitional countries which were regarded by international authorities as ‘high coverage sites’ – that is, where more than 50% of injecting drug users had been reached by one or more HIV-prevention interventions. The most significant finding is that high level coverage can be attained by interventions addressing HIV among injecting drug users in developing and transitional countries. The seven case studies each include a description of the development of the programme and features of the services provided, an estimation of programme coverage, factors that enabled high coverage, and a discussion of ways to maintain and expand coverage.
- Global reach: how trade unions are responding to AIDS
- This Best Practice report shows how the power of working people can be harnessed in the response to AIDS. Eleven case studies from different settings show how trade unions are mounting bold, imaginative responses to HIV in the workplace: challenging stigma and discrimination, addressing the factors that increase vulnerability and risk, educating their members on HIV transmission prevention, providing care and treatment, and building worldwide coalitions that campaign for more to be done to tackle the disease. The report contains a wealth of practical experience that trade unions, employers, governments and nongovernmental organizations can draw on when developing workplace responses to AIDS.
- Helping Ourselves: Community Responses to AIDS in Swaziland
- Cover pictures and other illustrations: UNAIDS / Ruth Evans UNAIDS/06.22E (English original, June 2006)
- Global Task Team, A pathway to implement the "Three Ones"
- Opportunities for Scaling Up the Response to HIV at Country Level. Guidance Note.
- Newsletter: The Global Coalition of women and AIDS – issue 4
- Women account for nearly half of HIV infections worldwide and almost two-thirds of those among young people, with female infections rising in almost every region. Yet twenty-five years into the global AIDS epidemic, there is still no widely available technology that women can both initiate and control to protect themselves from HIV.
- A joint response to HIV
- HIV/AIDS: A unique global threat.
- HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention among sex workers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- The aim of this study is to describe the experiences of and challenges faced by five nongovernmental organizations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which developed effective practices and implemented promising HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention programmes for sex workers and their clients. The programmes’ key objective was to decrease sex workers’ vulnerability by improving their overall well being and supporting their empowerment. All organizations operate in low-resource settings and their experiences can be helpful in initiating and moving forward similar projects.
- Keeping the Promise: An Agenda for Action on Women and AIDS
- The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS was launched by UNAIDS in 2004 to respond to the increasing feminization of the HIV epidemic and a growing concern that existing AIDS strategies did not adequately address women’s needs. A loose alliance of civil society groups, networks of women living with HIV and United Nations agencies, the Coalition works at global and national levels to advocate for improved AIDS programming for women and girls. It focuses on several key issues: preventing new HIV infections by improving access to reproductive health care; promoting equitable access to HIV care and treatment; ensuring universal access to education; securing women's property and inheritance rights; reducing violence against women; ensuring that women’s care work is properly supported; advocating for increased research and funding for female-controlled HIV prevention methods; promoting women's leadership in the AIDS response.
- Report on the global AIDS epidemic: Executive summary
- This executive summary of the 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic provides information on the latest developments in the AIDS epidemic and the AIDS response. The special UNAIDS 10th anniversary edition of the report presents country profiles and estimates of the epidemic’s scope and human toll.
- Educate Girls. Fight AIDS
- Growing evidence shows that getting and keeping young people in school, particularly girls, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to HIV. By itself, merely attending primary school makes young people significantly less likely to contract HIV. When young people stay in school through the secondary level, education’s protective effect against HIV is even more pronounced. This is especially true for girls who, with each additional year of education, gain greater independence, are better equipped to make decisions affecting their sexual lives, and have higher income earning potential – all of which help them stay safe from HIV.
- UN System HIV Workplace Programmes HIV: Prevention, Treatment and Care for UN System Employees and Their Families
- This Best Practice Case Study captures lessons learned, keys to success, and challenges that must be met if there is to be optimal access to treatment and care for UN staff and their dependents. It describes UN workplace programmes in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda where multi-disciplinary teams are discovering the power of leadership and the value of multidisciplinary interagency approaches.
- Courting Rights: Case Studies in Litigating the Human Rights of People Living with HIV
- As the case studies in this volume demonstrate, the law can be protective of human rights, but can also impede their realization. Over the years, people living with or affected by HIV have sometimes successfully claimed the protection of the law. In other instances, courageous activists have challenged the law to embody the human rights protections they deserve. This volume presents 30 summaries of court or tribunal proceedings aimed at defending or securing the human rights of people living with, or vulnerable to, HIV. With an emphasis on cases from developing countries, this volume examines key litigation efforts to advance a “human rightsbased approach” to HIV on three fronts: discrimination, access to treatment, and prevention and care for prisoners. Understanding the ways in which litigation has been used in the struggle for human rights, successfully or otherwise, helps legislators, jurists, advocates and policymakers to understand and use the law optimally in the response to AIDS.
- Towards universal access: assessment by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS on scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support - Note by the Secretary-General
- This report is the submission at the sixtieth session of the UN General Assembly of the assessment of country-driven processes for scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, with the aim of coming as close as possible to the goal of universal access to treatment by 2010 for all those who need it.
- AIDS-related issues among indigenous peoples
- In response to recommendations of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UNAIDS provided this background
- From advocacy to action: a progress report on UNAIDS at country level
- This report summarizes UNAIDS’ assistance to countries in 2004 and 2005. Drawn from the reports of UNAIDS’ Country Coordinators from over 75 countries. The report covers the following 5 areas: Basic information on UNAIDS and how it operates, especially at country-level; how UNAIDS is contributing to implementation of the “Three Ones” principles; the many ways in which UNAIDS has assisted countries in strengthening their responses to AIDS; how UNAIDS is working to enhance the United Nations system’s capacity to assist countries in responding to AIDS and how UNAIDS plans to meet key challenges for the future.
- Intensifiying HIV prevention (small card)
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) brings together ten UN agencies in a common effort to fight the AIDS epidemic. As the main advocate for global action against AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response to the epidemic. It aims to prevent HIV transmission, provide care and support to those living with HIV, reduce the vulnerability of individuals and communities to AIDS, and alleviate the impact of the epidemic.
- Evidence for HIV decline in Zimbabwe: a comprehensive review of the epidemiological data
- In this report, an assessment is made of the validity of the decline in HIV prevalence observed at antenatal clinics in Zimbabwe by examining this data closely from an epidemiological perspective, and by assessing their consistency with epidemiological and behavioural information from a range of other national sources and in-depth local community studies. Using the available behaviour data and comparison of observed trends in HIV prevalence with counterfactual trends in HIV prevalence—i.e. those expected in the absence of behaviour change—generated by fitting an epidemiological model, assessment of the plausibility that behaviour change has contributed to the recent trends in HIV prevalence and incidence. The findings in this report are based on information collected in an epidemiological review of data on the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe carried out between November 2004 and June 2005.