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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

With the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) disability issues have received growing recognition in internaitonal policy debates. The field of HIV is no exception.

We call upon members of the judiciary to use their positions of power and influence to act as role models by providing leadership on the HIV epidemic in their communities. We commit to upholding the rule of law so that governments fulfil their national and international obligations relevant to HIV. We call upon UNAIDS to establish, as a matter of urgency, a Commission on AIDS and the Law that includes jurists and assists countries to align their laws with the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.

Considerable progress has been made in creating an enviable environment for increased partnerships and a stronger coordination of stakeholder activities for more effective response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Yet the funding of these activities remains a challenge for many implementers such as the NGOs and CBOs. A second round of the NASA was deemed necessary primarily to assess the level and trend of expenditures on the various HIV and AIDS programmatic areas.

There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV. UNAIDS and WHO recommend that countries with high HIV prevalence and low levels of male circumcision introduce or scale up safe male circumcision services as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy.