- 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 resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Eliminate parallel systems for HIV-related services to strengthen integration of the AIDS response in global health and development efforts.
UN Social Protection Floor Initiative
Mandated by the Chief Executive Board (CEB) of the United Nations in April 2009, the Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPF-I) is part of a set of multilateral actions to address the recent economic crisis, deploying all UN resources and capacities in support of effective national responses.
Regional Social Protection initiatives
- African Platform for Social Protection
- Windhoek Declaration on Social Protection (2008)
- African Union’s Social Policy Framework (2005)
- Forthcoming Social Protection Regional Framework (Southern African Development Community)
- Social Protection in Asia Programme
Related policies and guidelines
- WFP HIV and AIDS Policy (WFP, 2010)
- A guidance tool for including community systems strengthening in Global Fund proposals (UNAIDS, 2009)
- Guidance note on HIV and sex work (UNAIDS, 2009)
- UNAIDS Policy Brief : HIV, Food Security and Nutrition (WFP/WHO/UNAIDS, 2008)
- HIV and International Labour Migration: Policy Brief (UNAIDS/ILO/IOM, 2008)
- HIV and Refugees: Policy Brief (UNAIDS/UNHCR, 2007)
- Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work (ILO, 2001)
Related publications
- Two day meeting on evidence around HIV and social protection (UNAIDS/UNICEF/IDS, 2010)
- Business Case: Enhancing Social Protection (UNAIDS, 2010)
- Enhancing Social Protection for HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care & Support (UNICEF/UNAIDS/IDS, 2010)
- HIV - Sensitive Social Protection What does the evidence say? (UNAIDS, 2010)
- Update on the Impact of the Economic Crisis: HIV Prevention and Treatment Programmes (UNAIDS/World Bank, 2010)
- Community Systems Strengthening: Fact sheet (Global Fund, 2009)
- Designing cost-effective cash transfer programs to boost schooling among young women in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank, 2009)
- Preventing carer burnout (UNAIDS, 2008)
Social protection and children
- Children and HIV/AIDS: Fïfth stocktaking report (UNICEF/UNAIDS/UNFPA/WHO, 2010)
- Joint statement on advancing child-sensitive social protection (DFID/World Bank/UNICEF/others, 2009
- Home truths: Facing the facts on children, AIDS, and poverty (JLICA, 2009)
- Expanding Social Protection for vulnerable children and families: Working Paper (2008)
- Cash transfers for children affected by AIDS (IATT on Children and HIV and AIDS Social Protection Working Group, 2007)
Food assistance and HIV
- WFP HIV and AIDS Policy (WFP, 2010)
- Social Protection in the Era of HIV and AIDS - Examining the Role of Food-Based Interventions (WFP, 2007)
- Assistance to Food-Insecure People Suffering from the Effects of Natural Disasters and HIV/AIDS (WFP, 2010)
- HIV/AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security - Food in the Global AIDS Response (WFP, 2009)
UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”