- 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
- Towards universal access to prevention, care and treatment - Investing in faster national responses to HIV in West and Central Africa
- The purpose of this document is to provide practical documentation on regional needs and explain the work of UNAIDS in the various countries.
- Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention towards Universal Access (foldout with inserts)
- This document is intended primarily for policy makers and practitioners of HIV prevention programmes at national or sub-national levels. It provides a bird's eye view of the full document. Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention towards Universal Access
- AIDS OUTLOOK/09 : UNAIDS WORLD AIDS DAY REPORT (2008)
- AIDS OUTLOOK/09 is a new report from UNAIDS that provides perspectives on some of the most pressing issues that will confront policymakers and leaders as they respond to the challenges presented by AIDS in 2009.
- Guidelines and tools for developing communication strategies for joint UN teams on AIDS
- The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to countries for the development of a communication strategy for the Joint UN Team on AIDS and in support of the Joint UN Programme of Support.
- Keeping Score II
- A progress report towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the Caribbean. A consolidated regional analysis of reports submitted to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS - 2008.
- The Far Away From Home Club: HIV Prevention and Policy Implementation Feedback for Migrant and Mobile Populations in the Mekong River Delta, Viet Nam.
- The Far Away From Home Club is an example of success in the response to HIV in Viet Nam. A combination of dedicated, energetic, and forward-looking individuals and a strong yet flexible project structure resulted in a comprehensive prevention project for migrant and mobile populations in Can Tho City.
- Legal and regulatory self-assessment tool for male circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- This self-assessment tool provides practical guidance on legal, regulatory, and policy considerations associated with implementation and scale-up of male circumcision services for HIV transmission prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Policy Brief - Criminalization of HIV transmission
- The two main reasons advanced for criminalizing HIV transmission are to:
- Policy Brief - HIV, food security and nutrition (expanded version)
- Often neglected, food security and nutrition are critical for individuals, households and communities affected by HIV. Lack of food security and poor nutritional status may hasten progression to AIDS-related illnesses and undermine adherence and response to antiretroviral therapy. HIV infection itself undermines food security and nutrition by reducing work capacity and jeopardizing household livelihoods.
- Report on the global AIDS epidemic
- According to data in the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic there have been significant gains in preventing new HIV infections in a number of heavily affected countries. In Rwanda and Zimbabwe, changes in sexual behaviour have been followed by declines in the number of new HIV infections.
- Making HIV trials work for women and adolescent girls
- UNAIDS and other partners, including the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women and Tibotec Inc., have come together to create a movement to ‘Make HIV Trials Work for Women and Adolescent Girls’. The movement has been established to review past participation of women and adolescent girls in clinical trials; to assess how well HIV trials are collecting, measuring, analysing and presenting data related to health determinants and health outcomes in women or adolescent girls; and to identify barriers to including women and adolescents in trials. An action plan, developed to address these concerns, is being implemented.
- The road towards universal access
- Universal access is the global commitment to provide HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to all those in need, based on national targets set by countries. The targets were developed through country consultations with civil society, people living with HIV and other national partners to assess their epidemics and obstacles to accessing HIV prevention, treatment and care services.
- 2008 Delegates Guide to Women and AIDS: All Women, All Rights
- The guide to the women’s events and sessions in the Mexico Conference includes all sessions that address women’s issues directly or are organized by organizations serving women’s interests. These sessions will draw together lessons and conclusions from diverse expereinces across the globe. They will shed new knowledge and solidify what we already know – women must be front and center in the AIDS response.
- Executive summary of 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic
- The report documents considerable progress in many countries in addressing their national epidemics. A six fold increase in financing for HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries 2001–2007 is beginning to bear fruit, as gains in lowering the number of AIDS deaths and preventing new infections are apparent in many countries. Progress remainsuneven, however, and the epidemic’s future is still uncertain, underscoring the need for intensified action to move towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
- Policy Brief - HIV and International Labour Migration
- UNAIDS policy advice on the HIV related risks and prevention, care and treatment needs of international labour migrants.
- Preventing carer burnout: Inter-Mission Care and Rehabilitation Society (IMCARES)
- Burnout is not a single event but a process in which everyday stresses and anxieties that are not addressed gradually undermine carers mental and physical health, so that eventually caregiving and personal relationships suffer. Burnout is the fi nal stage in the stress process when everything falls apart. As a medical condition, burnout has no clear defi nition, but as a psychological condition it has been well defi ned and is increasingly recognized by people in the caring professions. Burnout has long been identifi ed as a crucial issue in HIV care and support; yet there is relatively little known about what measures can be taken to prevent or mitigate it.This document looks at how carer burnout can be avoided. It focuses on the approach used by a faith-based organization, IMCARES, Mumbai, India, to care for their staff and volunteers employed in their programmes and as carers in the community. Their strategy and practice may provide useful lessons in caring for carers for both secular and faith-based organizations working with people living with and affected by HIV.
- UNAIDS Policy Brief : HIV, Food Security and Nutrition
- Often neglected, food security and nutrition are critical for individuals, households and communities affected by HIV. Lack of food security and poor nutri-tional status may hasten progression to AIDS-related illnesses, undermine adherence and response to antiret-roviral therapy, and exacerbate socioeconomic impacts of the virus. HIV infection itself undermines food security and nutrition by reducing work capacity and productivity, and jeopardizing household livelihoods.
- UNAIDS Annual Report Knowing your epidemic
- Launched in January 1996, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) supports and coordinates the efforts of 10 cosponsoring United Nations (UN) system organizations and works with a wide range of other partners in the global response to AIDS. UNAIDS is guided by a Programme Coordinating Board with representatives of 22 governments from all geographical regions, six cosponsors, and five nongovernmental organizations including associations of people living with HIV. UNAIDS Secretariat headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland, with staff on the ground in more than 80 countries.
- Core Indicators for National AIDS Programmes - Guidance and Specifications for Additional Recommended Indicators
- The purpose of this document is to present the 40 core national indicators that provide minimum necessary information for national-level monitoring of the HIV epidemic and response, and to provide detailed specifications and guidance on the 15 indicators recommended in addition to the 25 UNGASS indicators.
- Safe, Voluntary, Informed Male Circumcision and Comprehensive HIV Prevention Programming Guidance for decision-makers on human rights, ethical and legal consideration
- Given that it reduces a man's risk of acquisition of HIV through penile-vaginal intercourse, male circumcision provides an opportunity to reinforce HIV prevention efforts and thereby promote human rights. A human rights-based approach to introducing or expanding male circumcision services requires measures to ensure that the procedure can be carried out safely, under conditions of informed consent, and without discrimination.
- Global Tuberculosis Control 2008
- Annual report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Control 2008. This year's report shows that nearly 3/4 million people living with HIV fell ill with TB disease in 2006, confirming that TB is a major cause of illness and death in people living with HIV despite being mostly preventable and curable. Africa is yet again the most heavily affected continent, with 85% of the global burden of HIV-related TB.
- Second Guidance Paper: Joint UN programmes and teams on AIDS
- Practical guidelines on implementing effective and sustainable joint teams and programmes of support.
- Morocco: a national AIDS response
- This publication gives a brief overview of the national response to AIDS in Morocco. The Moroccan AIDS response gave rise to the National Strategic Plan, which now serves as a reference throughout Africa. The National Strategic Plan has contributed to keeping the national seroprevalence at a low level. In a population of 32 million, prevalence of 0.1% among pregnant women has been found and an aggregate number of 1878 cases of AIDS were declared at the end of 2005.
- HIV Terminology guide
- This list of UNAIDS’ preferred terminology has been developed for use by staff members, colleagues in the Programme’s ten cosponsoring organizations, and other partners working in the global response to HIV. Language shapes beliefs and may influence behaviours. Considered use of appropriate language has the power to strengthen the response. UNAIDS is pleased to make this list of preferred terminology freely available. It is a living, evolving document reviewed regularly.
- Handbook on HIV and Human Rights for National Human Rights Institutions
- Through the long struggle against HIV, it has become clear that human rights are central to effective national responses to HIV. Where human rights are not protected, people are more vulnerable to HIV infection. Where the human rights of HIV-positive people are not protected, they suffer stigma and discrimination, become ill, become unable to support themselves and their families, and if not provided treatment, they die.
- The Response to AIDS in Madagascar
- The response to AIDS in Madagascar has, for a long time, been compared to a helpless vessel drifting on a stormy sea. Since there was no common vision, no coherent communication strategy to accompany the measures, and no clear leadership—even less any systematic follow-up—the response could be compared to a place where everybody was fighting their way to mark their territory or to a blank page on which everybody could, in indescribable cacophony, write and play their own music.
- Reducing HIV stigma and discrimination: a critical part of national AIDS programmes - a resource for national stakeholders in the HIV response
- Despite the pervasiveness of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in national HIV epidemics and their harmful impact in terms of public health and human rights, they remain seriously neglected issues in most national responses to HIV. National AIDS programmes together with key partners can take concrete steps to address these critical obstacles and help pave the way towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support. This document presents strategies, programme examples and research findings concerning how governments, the UN system, donors and civil society can make the reduction of HIV-related stigma and discrimination central in the national response to AIDS.
- Framework for monitoring and evaluating prevention programmes for most-at-risk-populations
- Describes key principles and considerations and provides a framework for the monitoring and evaluation of HIV prevention programmes for most-at-risk populations. This is not an manual of monitoring indicators.