Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

UNAIDS ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS; German: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS) is coordinating a project of the United Nations with the aim of the various HIV / AIDS pandemic activities of individual countries in the fight against AIDS.

It was created in 1996 from the Global Program on HIV / AIDS of the World Health Organization. The headquarters of the organization is located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was chaired by the end of 2008 Peter Piot, the UN Under-Secretary General. Michel Sidibé 's successor was appointed on 1 December 2008, who comes from Mali and has worked before joining UNAIDS for 14 years with the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF.

HIV / AIDS can not be fought alone in the medical sector, as it touches on many aspects of human society because of the way the transmission and spread of the epidemic. In the early years of the AIDS spread had the specialized agencies of the UN and the states each have their own programs, of which only very few were pooled in order to increase their effectiveness. In order to coordinate the activities of these programs better, UNAIDS was established.

An important function of UNAIDS is the collection of data and the attendant consequences of the epidemic is to capture the social ( living conditions of those infected ) and to document the impact of the epidemic on the economy of the states.

UNAIDS supported the World AIDS Conference and published twice a year, the Global HIV / AIDS Report.

In addition to the UN member states UNAIDS co-financed by ten organizations:

  • High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR )
  • Children's Fund (UNICEF )
  • World Food Programme (WFP )
  • Development Programme (UNDP )
  • Population Fund, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA )
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC)
  • International Labour Organization ( ILO)
  • The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO)
  • World Health Organization ( WHO)
  • World Bank

The Committee of cosponsoring organizations ( CCO) provides a forum of co-sponsors and meets twice a year. He sits in front of one of the partner organizations. The Presidency is awarded annually by rotation method.

UN agencies that cooperate with UNAIDS

To combat HIV and AIDS effectively, UNAIDS coordinated the work of these specialized agencies of the United Nations:

  • The World Bank for providing the funding
  • For the protection of AIDS sick children and children with AIDS parents
  • For the protection of populations that are directly or indirectly affected by AIDS
  • For the prevention and the protection circuit of the drug
  • For the protection and prevention of AIDS patients traveler or those who are with them in close contact
  • For the prevention and information on AIDS
  • For coordinating the medical staff
  • To provide access for the forces of prevention and protection
  • To help the countries that are affected by AIDS.
  • The sixth development goal of the MDGs is concerned with the fight against HIV / AIDS.

Weblink

  • Website of UNAIDS (English / French / Spanish )
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