- 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
- MDG6: Six things you need to know about the AIDS response today
- There is a lot to be hopeful for as we approach the milestone of reaching the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Much has been achieved—fewer people are dying of AIDS-related illnesses and the rate of new HIV infections has fallen by more than 17% since 2001. Recent breakthroughs in HIV prevention research – such as a woman initiated and controlled microbicide gel combined with the increasing scale up of male circumcision—hold promise for both women and men to protect themselves from HIV.
- UNAIDS 2011–2015 Strategy: Getting to zero
- This Strategy has been developed through wide consultation, informed by the best evidence and driven by a moral imperative to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and the Millennium Development Goals.
- We can empower young people to protect themselves from HIV
- More than half of all sexually transmitted infections, other than HIV, (more than 180 million out of a global annual total of 340 million) occur among young people aged 15 to 24. Yet most young people still have no access to sexual and reproductive health programmes that provide the information, skills, services, commodities, and social support they need to prevent HIV. In fact, many laws and policies go as far as to exclude young people from accessing sexual health and HIV-related services, such as HIV testing and counselling, the provision of condoms, and age-appropriate sexuality and HIV prevention education.
- We can support the ability of men who have sex with men, sex workers and transgender people to protect themselves from HIV infection, achieve full health and realize their human rights
- In every region of the world, high HIV prevalence (of 5% or more) has been documented among men who have sex with men, sex workers and transgender people. This is the case not only in countries known to have concentrated epidemics but also in countries (largely in east and southern Africa) with generalized epidemics.
- UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010
- The 2010 edition of the UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic includes new country by country scorecards on key issues facing the AIDS response. Based on the latest data from 182 countries, this global reference book provides comprehensive analysis on the AIDS epidemic and response. For the first time the report includes trend data on incidence from more than 60 countries.
- AIDS Scorecards
- This report provides a quick snapshot of the state of the AIDS response, key findings and action points. For the first time UNAIDS is presenting AIDS scorecards that provide a quick overview of the progress made by United Nations Member States in the global AIDS response.
- Regard sur l'épidémie du VIH dans les pays francophones
- Levier de la riposte au sida, l’ONUSIDA s’emploie à bâtir l’action politique et à promouvoir les droits de tous les individus afin d’obtenir de meilleurs résultats pour la santé et le développement dans le monde. Il fixe des orientations au niveau mondial et incarne la source des données relatives au VIH. Dans les pays, le Programme commun rassemble les ressources du Secrétariat de l’ONUSIDA et de 10 organisations du système des Nations Unies pour des activités coordonnées et responsables visant à unir le monde contre le sida.
- We can enhance social protection for people affected by HIV
- Social protection efforts have long served the most vulnerable people in many industrialized countries. More recently, expanded social protection efforts also aim to promote human development, asset accumulation and economic self-sufficiency. These efforts challenge stigma and discrimination and aim to transform the lives of vulnerable individuals. Over the long term, such efforts can also address many of the structural inequities that ultimately drive the HIV epidemic.
- We can prevent mothers from dying and babies from becoming infected with HIV
- HIV has a significant impact on maternal, infant and child health and survival. Globally, the proportion of people living with HIV who are women has remained stable at around 50%, but women have a disproportionate share of HIV infection, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 60% of people living with HIV are female. HIV is now the leading cause of mortality among women of reproductive age worldwide, with HIV-related maternal mortality rates increasing and surpassing other causes.
- UNAIDS Vision and Mission
- UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
- The benchmark: What the world thinks about the AIDS response
- Zogby International was commissioned by UNAIDS to conduct an online survey of adults with Internet access in 25 countries. The survey was conducted between 30 March 2010 and 27 April 2010. A sampling of Zogby International’s online panel, which is representative of the adult population of the United States, was invited to participate. For all other nations, partner panel members were invited to participate.
- Combination HIV Prevention: Tailoring and Coordinating Biomedical, Behavioural and Structural Strategies to Reduce New HIV Infections.
- This discussion paper summarizes the approach to HIV prevention programming known as “combination prevention” that UNAIDS recommends to achieve the greatest and most lasting impact on reducing HIV incidence and on improving the well-being of affected communities around the world.
- UNAIDS Expanded Business Case: Enhancing Social Protection
- UNAIDS Expanded Business Case: Enhancing Social Protection
- AIDS plus MDGs: synergies that serve people
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reflect the global resolve to achieve unprecedented, radical progress across a broad range of health and international development priorities. The MDGs were endorsed by the global community at the turn of the century. Since then, substantial gains have been made towards many of them.2 Progress has been uneven, however, with major achievements in some countries and regions offset by inadequate progress elsewhere, and with significant inequalities within countries as to who benefits. The global development and economic context in which these goals were agreed has also shifted considerably, creating new challenges and opportunities—and calls for new solutions—in the campaign to achieve the MDGs.
- We can prevent people living with HIV from dying of tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of serious illness and death among people living with HIV, despite being curable and preventable. The need for an integrated approach to addressing HIV and TB (HIV/TB), as intersecting epidemics, is extremely urgent and increasing.
- We can protect drug users from becoming infected with HIV
- Worldwide, nearly 3 million injecting drug users are living with HIV, and 13 million more are at risk of HIV infection. However, HIV service coverage for drug users is well below 10%, making universal access for this population and the related Millennium Development Goals distant targets.
- We can remove punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and discrimination that block effective responses to HIV
- Despite remarkable recent successes in the global response to HIV, punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and human rights violations (see Annex) are threatening progress towards universal access targets and the Millennium Development Goals. Successful strategies for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support require supportive legal, regulatory and social environments that advance human rights, gender equality and social justice goals. Punishing and stigmatizing environments, in contrast, can increase people’s vulnerability to HIV infection, reduce access to and use of HIV services and other health and social services, discourage individual behaviour change, and increase the impact of HIV on people already living with the virus and on their families and communities.
- UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women: Operational plan
- The Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV 2010–2014 (Operational Plan) supports the implementation of the UNAIDS Action Framework: Addressing Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV.1 The Action Framework was developed in response to the pressing need to address the persistent gender inequalities and human rights violations that put women and girls at a greater risk of HIV, and increase their vulnerability. These factors also threaten the gains that have been made in preventing HIV transmission and in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy. The UNAIDS Action Framework focuses on action in three areas, outlined below, in which UNAIDS2 and UNIFEM can make specific and unique contributions.
- Guidelines for Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials
- The good participatory practice (GPP) guidelines were created in 2007 to set global standards in stakeholder engagement for biomedical HIV prevention trials. The guidelines were reviewed in 2010 following extensive consultation. This revised version of the GPP guidelines is circulated in draft form for comments to be sent by 31 October 2010 to gpp@unaids.org or avac@avac.org. The GPP guidelines are intended to provide trial funders, sponsors, and implementers with systematic guidance on how to effectively engage with all stakeholders in the design and conduct of biomedical HIV prevention trials.
- OUTLOOK breaking news: Young people are leading the HIV prevention revolution
- Young people are leading the prevention revolution by taking definitive action to protect themselves from HIV. A change is happening among young people across the world, especially in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Waiting longer to become sexually active, young people have fewer multiple partners and there’s an increased use of condoms among those with multiple partners. And HIV prevalence among young people is dropping in many key countries.
- OUTLOOK special section: Making sense of the money & where does the money for AIDS go?
- In most countries health spending increases at the same rate as the overall economy grows. In an economist’s world, where necessity has an elasticity of 0 and luxury an elasticity of 1, health care has an income elasticity of close to 1. So how can your gut reaction be made to mirror reality? OUTLOOK looks at the possibilities.
- OUTLOOK special section: The benchmark
- UNAIDS and the polling company Zogby International surveyed the world on what people think about the AIDS epidemic and response.
- UNAIDS OUTLOOK report 2010
- New UNAIDS report shows that young people are leading the prevention revolution, with 15 of the most severely affected countries reporting a 25% drop in HIV prevalence among this key population. New global opinion poll shows that AIDS continues to be of major importance for the public around the world.
- Methods for estimating HIV incidence
- This article provides a summary of current issues and recommended methods for estimating HIV incidence, including cohort studies for direct measures of incidence, mathematical models that can be used to estimate incidence indirectly from HIV prevalence data and biological assays based on HIV antigen or antibody measurements to distinguish recent from established HIV infections.
- UNAIDS Annual Report 2009
- This Annual Report provides snapshots of how the UNAIDS Secretariat and its Cosponsors worked together to strengthen the HIV response in 2009. It focuses on concrete results in the 10 priority areas that form UNAIDS’ new vision and strategy. Key achievements, statistics and country results are highlighted for each priority area. Feature stories have also been included to provide the reader with a broad overview of UNAIDS’ work and its impact in countries.
- Joint Action for Results: UNAIDS Outcome Framework 2009–2011
- The HIV organizational landscape has evolved and grown more complex over the past decade. UNAIDS, donors and civil society, including networks of people living with HIV, have rightly demanded greater clarity on the relationships between needs, financing, activities and outcomes. Also demanded is greater specificity about the role of UNAIDS and the Secretariat within the wider constellation of actors.
- Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings (2010 revision)
- In 2004, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) issued the guidelines Addressing HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings to help guide those involved in emergency response, and those responding to the epidemic, to plan the delivery of a minimum set of HIV prevention, care and support interventions to people affected by humanitarian crises. This revised version of the guidelines, Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings, draws on the experiences of governments; UN, inter-governmental and nongovernmental organizations; and the Red Cross Red Crescent movement; and on recent developments in the field.
- Partnership with Faith-based Organizations - UNAIDS Strategic Framework
- FBOs have played an important part in effective global responses to AIDS over the past 20 years and can have a central part to play in the development and implementation of national AIDS programmes.
- Agenda for accelerated country action for women, girls, gender equality and HIV: How civil society, governments and the UN system can together create an effective response A briefing note for action by communities
- The agenda for accelerated country action provides guidance for UN agencies at the country level (UN joint teams on AIDS) on actions to be taken in collaboration with governments, civil society and development partners to make national AIDS policies and programmes more responsive to the specific needs, and more protective of the rights, of women and girls.
- Guidance Note on Technical Support Planning at the Country Level
- Country experience and consultations withinternational partners has demonstrated a clear need for a more demand-driven approach totechnical support provision, to reinforce country leadership, while helping to better align thecontributions of all stakeholders.
- Letter to partners 2010: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS
- This letter comes to you from Swaziland, where I just visited a Family Life Association clinic. This integrated clinic brings together family planning, antenatal care, maternal and child health services, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services and HIV counselling and testing, along with access to antiretroviral therapy. In the near future, I hope to see many more examples of integrated approaches to HIV.