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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
- World leaders embrace the African Union Roadmap on AIDS, TB and malaria: Establishing Shared Responsibility and Global Solidarity as a vision for global health in the Post-2015 development agenda
- Much of the success of the AIDS movement has been won through its power to unite people – across nations and sectors – in solidarity to fight for health and social justice. On 26 September, 2012, on the side-lines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, political leaders from Africa and its development partners came together with representatives from civil society, academia and development institutions to re-affirm commitments and to take action to accelerate progress in the AIDS response through a new, unifying agenda of shared responsibility and global solidarity.
- Women out loud: How women living with HIV will help the world end AIDS
- Women may make up half the world’s population, but they do not share it equally. This is especially evident when it comes to HIV. Half of all people living with HIV are women, yet many are underserved or do not know their status. Despite the many successes we have seen, women still face inequalities that will keep the AIDS response from reaching its full potential.
- The HIV and Sex Work Collection – Innovative responses in Asia and the Pacific
- The HIV and Sex Work Collection provides eleven detailed case studies on HIV and sex work programmes and advocacy from seven countries in the Asia Pacific region: Bangladesh, China, Fiji, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand. It also provides an analysis of the key lessons learned for delivering and scaling up evidence and rights-based responses.
- 2012 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report - Results
- A new World AIDS Day report: Results, by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), shows that unprecedented acceleration in the AIDS response is producing results for people. The report shows that a more than 50% reduction in the rate of new HIV infections has been achieved across 25 low- and middle-income countries––more than half in Africa, the region most affected by HIV.
- 2012 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
- In embracing the targets in the 2011 Political Declaration, countries committed to monitor and report on progress and challenges encountered in their national AIDS responses. To facilitate biennial reporting on national progress, UNAIDS collaborated with partners to develop a set of core indicators against which countries would report.
- Decision Point La Francophonie: No New HIV Infections, No One Denied Treatment - La Francophonie Summit, Kinshasa, October 2012
- In June 2011, world leaders unanimously adopted the UN General Assembly Political Declaration on AIDS that laid out ambitious targets for the global HIV response. They pledged, among other goals, to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV by 50%, end new HIV infections among children and ensure 15 million people have access to HIV treatment by 2015. While the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF) has made considerable progress towards these targets, its member countries are characterized by marked variations in access to treatment and prevention services as well as inadequate funding from both international and domestic sources.
- Securing an AIDS Free Future: Practical Lessons about Security and AIDS in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
- This document identifies lessons learnt as a result of the implementation of the Security Council’s directives on AIDS and security. Drawing on experiences from UN peacekeeping operations over the last 12 years, the report underscores the security dimensions of the AIDS response, summarizes both successes and challenges to date in integrating HIV in peacekeeping missions, and identifies key priorities for future efforts to mainstream HIV across all aspects of peacekeeping operations.
- HIV and outreach programmes with men who have sex with men in the Middle East and North Africa - From a process of raising awareness to a process of commitment
- The objective of this handbook is to provide countries that are currently implementing MSM programmes with additional tools to improve these programmes. It also provides other countries willing to initiate MSM programmes with sufficient elements to design them.
- Impact of the global economic crisis on women, girls and gender equality
- This briefing paper is intended for international, regional and national decision-makers, policy makers, and advocacy groups interested and engaged in addressing the global economic crisis. The purpose of the paper is to call for the respect of women’s rights and gender equality in times of economic crisis, as well as make the case for sustained investment in meeting the needs of women and girls.
- Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: International Assistance from Donor Governments in 2011
- While resources from all sectors - multilateral institutions, the private sector, low- and middle-income country governments, and households and individuals—are all key to financing the response, donor governments account for most HIV funding in many hard hit countries. Therefore, understanding how donors have responded to this crisis is critical to assessing efforts to address the AIDS epidemic around the world and in meeting the targets set out by United Nations Member States in the 2011 Political Declaration on AIDS.
- A progress report on the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive
- Every year, almost 330 000 babies become infected with HIV because they are born to mothers living with HIV. Preventing this is not just a moral imperative but one of the best investments that the world can make to address HIV.
- Breaking news supplement: meeting the investment challenge
- Meeting the investment challenge is a supplement of the new UNAIDS report Together we will end AIDS and provides additional information on domestic and international resources for AIDS. The supplement highlights the fact that domestic investments have surpassed global giving in 2011.
- The Roadmap: Shared responsibility and global solidarity for AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa
- Shared responsibility and global solidarity is on the agenda of the 19th African Union Summit – supported by a new Roadmap. Building on commitments including the 2001 Abuja Declaration and the 2010 Kampala Declaration, this Roadmap seeks to leverage the resources, activism and momentum of the AIDS response for progress across health and development through a set of practical African-sourced solutions.
- Country ownership for a sustainable AIDS response: from principles to practice
- This Discussion Paper summarizes key findings from 18 UNAIDS facilitated country consultations on country ownership and sustainability of national AIDS responses held between June 2010 and November 2011. It also incorporates findings from a global consultation that was held in Geneva in June 2010, as well as a regional consultation for West and Central Africa that took place in Dakar in March 2011.
- Ethical considerations in biomedical HIV prevention trials
- Well into the third decade of the HIV epidemic, there remains no effective HIV preventive vaccine, microbicide, product or drug to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition. As the numbers of those infected by HIV and dying from AIDS continue to increase, the need for such biomedical HIV preventive interventions becomes ever more urgent. Several such products are at various stages of development, including some currently in phase III efficacy trials. The successful development of effective HIV preventive interventions requires that many different candidates be studied simultaneously in different populations around the world.
- Promising practices in community engagement for elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive
- Attaining the elimination of new HIV infections among children and keeping their mothers alive is possible but will not be easy. Success will require the sustained engagement and unique inputs of various communities, from small informal groups at the grass-roots level up to global coalitions. The good news, as reinforced through this review, is that implementers and experts already know and are implementing many effective community engagement strategies that are improving service uptake and achieving positive health outcomes.
- UNAIDS Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework
- The Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) is UNAIDS instrument to maximize the coherence, coordination and impact of the UN’s response to AIDS by combining the efforts of the UN Cosponsors and UNAIDS Secretariat in 2012-2015. The UBRAF aims at achieving UNAIDS long term vision of zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths, and zero discrimination by catalyzing and leveraging resources for the AIDS response but also for broader health, development and human rights outcomes.
- Investing for results. Results for people
- This tool aims to reignite the momentum to reach the 2015 global AIDS targets agreed on by United Nations Member States at the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS and articulated in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. These targets are set within a results framework that is people-centred and outcome-oriented.
- The potential impact of free trade agreements on public health
- Over the past ten years, an increasing number of countries are initiating, negotiating and agreeing new trade agreements between two countries or amongst a group of countries. These are commonly known as free trade agreements or “FTAs”, and they are promoted as providing significant economic benefits to signatory countries through the removal or reduction of barriers to trade in goods and services.
- Strategy recommendations for collaborating with a new generation of leaders for the AIDS response
- This document provides a set of recommendations for strategic actions that the UNAIDS Secretariat should undertake to collaborate effectively with a new generation of young leaders to ensure that the ambitious goals set by world leaders for the AIDS response are reached by 2015. The recommendations were compiled by an independent, youth-led Drafting Committee, in dialogue with the UNAIDS Secretariat, on behalf of more than 5000 young people who took part in CrowdOutAIDS. This document represents the first crowdsourced strategy in the history of the UN.
- Letter to partners 2012: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS
- If the history of AIDS has taught us anything, it is that epidemics don’t occur in a vacuum. HIV has exploited our social and political shortcomings—and it has shown again and again that an effective response must span the health sector and go beyond it to address the laws, attitudes and economic injustices that make infection more likely and more lethal.
- UNAIDS Guidance note on HIV and sex work (updated April 2012)
- This Guidance Note has been developed to provide the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat with a coordinated human-rights-based approach to promoting universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the context of adult sex work.
- HIV and hormonal contraception: FAQ
- WHO has announced in February 2012 that its current recommendation—no restrictions on the use of hormonal contraceptives to avoid unintended pregnancies for women at high risk of, or living with HIV—remains unchanged. They also recommend that women using progestogen-only injectable contraceptives also use condoms or other measures to prevent HIV infection.
- AIDS Dependency Crisis: Sourcing African Solutions
- The past decade has seen a remarkable transformation across the African Continent—an expression of hardearned progress and promise even in the midst of a global financial crisis. This is an era of unprecedented economic growth, socially sustainable gains and strong African leadership. And today almost every country in Africa has a success story to tell, a story of lives saved through stopping new HIV infections and preventing AIDS-related deaths.
- UNAIDS guidance for partnerships with civil society, including people living with HIV and key populations
- This document provides guidance on how The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), its Cosponsors and Secretariat (working at national, regional and global levels) should strengthen and operationalize meaningful and respectful partnership work with civil society. It should enable the UN to deliver the targets and elimination commitments agreed in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.