In this report, an assessment is made of the validity of the decline in HIV prevalence observed at antenatal clinics in Zimbabwe by examining this data closely from an epidemiological perspective, and by assessing their consistency with epidemiological and behavioural information from a range of other national sources and in-depth local community studies. Using the available behaviour data and comparison of observed trends in HIV prevalence with counterfactual trends in HIV prevalence—i.e. those expected in the absence of behaviour change—generated by fitting an epidemiological model, assessment of the plausibility that behaviour change has contributed to the recent trends in HIV prevalence and incidence. The findings in this report are based on information collected in an epidemiological review of data on the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe carried out between November 2004 and June 2005.

In response to recommendations of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UNAIDS provided this background

Проведенная Объединенной программой Организации Объединенных Наций по ВИЧ/СПИДу (ЮНЭЙДС) оценка всеохватных и инициируемых на национальном уровне процессов в целях расширения масштабов профилактики ВИЧ, лечения, ухода и поддержки представляется в соответствии с резолюцией 60/224 Генеральной Ассамблеи.

Доклад о глобальной эпидемии СПИДа содеpжит последнюю инфоpмацию о pазвитии эпидемии СПИДа и о пpинимаемых
ответных меpах. Специальное издание, посвященное 10-й годовщине ЮНЭЙДС, включает кpаткую хаpактеpистику и оценки,
полученные в стpанах о масштабах эпидемии и о человеческих потеpях.

This document provides operational guidance to country-level partners and UN staff to facilitate the next phase of the country-level consultative process on scaling up towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support services. It concerns the setting of ambitious targets for the national HIV response to achieve by 2008 and 2010, and builds on previous guidelines.

This report is the result of an independent review jointly commissioned by UNAIDS and UNDP of the experiences of mainstreaming AIDS in national development instruments, and technical support provided to national partners in this area. The main national development instruments considered in this report are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and to a lesser extent, national development plans.The review was carried out by the HLSP Institute between November 2004 and June 2005 and is also available on CD Rom.

These Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention: Towards Universal Access are designed to provide policy makers and planners with practical guidance to tailor their national HIV prevention response so that they respond to the epidemiological scenario of the country and populations who remain most vulnerable to and at risk of HIV infection.

In March 2007, WHO and UNAIDS convened an international consultation to review the results of the three randomized controlled trials and other evidence on male circumcision and HIV prevention, to discuss the policy and programme implications, and to make recommendations regarding public health issues. This document summarizes the principal conclusions and recommendations of the meeting.

UNAIDS convened an expert consultation on Behaviour Change in the Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV in collaboration with the US Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator on 25-26 September 2006. 26 experts from 17 countries joined UNAIDS for the consultation to reconsider the state of knowledge about behaviour change measures for the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV. The objective of the meeting was to create a forum for dialogue about the evidence and the priorities to prevent sexual transmission, to pinpoint a few concrete barriers to behaviour change that can be overcome, and to seek a practical way forward to innovate and test or expand some promising new approaches to behavioural change.

This Handbook is designed to assist national human rights institutions to integrate HIV into their mandate to protect and promote human rights. It provides a basic overview of the role of human rights in an effective response to the epidemic and suggests concrete activities that national institutions can carry out within their existing work. It also presents possibilities for engaging with the national HIV response in order to protect and promote human rights, in the context of the “Three Ones”.