The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Aids Epidemic ◽

Nations Programme ◽

Health Related ◽

This chapter centers on the role of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in promoting and protecting HIV-related human rights. It starts by recalling the rationale for creating UNAIDS and explains how its mandate and structure has enabled communities affected by HIV to remain engaged. This engagement has been critical in ensuring that human rights considerations remain at the forefront of the global AIDS response. The chapter also looks at the journey ahead, taking AIDS “out of isolation.” It argues that this process can benefit not only the AIDS response but also other health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets, in particular universal health coverage (UHC). It concludes by recognizing the SDGs as a springboard for UNAIDS to scale up efforts to support the realization of human rights, which will ultimately determine whether we will be able to reach the end of the AIDS epidemic.

HIV/AIDS continues to spread rapidly worldwide despite increasing commitment

10.2807/esw.06.27.01929-en ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 6 (27) ◽

Author(s):

T Chadborn

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Hiv Prevalence ◽

Aids Epidemic ◽

Nations Programme ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

Forty million people are now estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, according to the report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic prepared by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (1). The report highlights the fact that HIV prevalence in the worst affected countries is surpassing what was previously believed to be a natural peak, and that it is now increasing rapidly in many countries that previously had a low burden of infection.

World AIDS Day 2003: Global AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating

10.2807/esw.07.48.02332-en ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 7 (48) ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Aids Epidemic ◽

Nations Programme ◽

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS,

HIV infection in Europe: endemic in the west, epidemic in the east

10.2807/esw.06.27.01928-en ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 6 (27) ◽

Author(s):

L Payne

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Hiv Infection ◽

Global Perspective ◽

The West ◽

Aids Epidemic ◽

Epidemiological Monitoring ◽

Nations Programme ◽

The European centre for the epidemiological monitoring of AIDS (EuroHIV, http://www.eurohiv.org) has published the latest report on HIV/AIDS surveillance in the 51 countries of the WHO European Region (1). The publication covers data reported until the end of 2001 and its release coincides with the latest update from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS, http://www.unaids.org/) on the global perspective of the HIV/AIDS epidemic (2).

2004 update on the global AIDS epidemic from UNAIDS

10.2807/esw.08.28.02501-en ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 8 (28) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J Blackham

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Aids Epidemic ◽

First Case ◽

Nations Programme ◽

AIDS has claimed 20 million lives since the first case was diagnosed in 1981, according to the 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, published this week by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Administrative Reform in International Organizations: The Case of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2283080 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Olivier Nay

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

International Organizations ◽

Administrative Reform ◽

Nations Programme ◽

Setting the scene, setting the targets. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS prevention targets of 2016 and estimating global pre-exposure prophylaxis targets

Sexual Health ◽

10.1071/sh18147 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 485 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rosalind Coleman

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Hiv Infections ◽

Hiv Interventions ◽

Nations Programme ◽

Substantial Risk ◽

Exposure Prophylaxis ◽

Priority Populations ◽

Commitment to ambitious and time-bound targets for HIV interventions has been part of the response from the beginning of the HIV epidemic. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) HIV primary prevention workA is built on five pillars that include offering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to population groups at substantial risk of HIV infection. After a slow start, countries are now setting coverage targets for PrEP, but the weakness of epidemiological, demographic and behavioural data at subnational level in many countries where there is a high burden of new HIV infections, makes it difficult to define the locations and populations where to offer PrEP. This article reviews the history and challenges of PrEP target setting and suggests some possible ways of strengthening the process. Reviewing program data will identify gaps in reaching key and other priority populations for whom coverage targets were set and help to refine the offer of PrEP.