Mission Statement:
As the main advocate for global action on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic. |
Our Programmes:
Why UNAIDS?
Given the relentless spread of HIV, and the epidemic's devastating impact on all aspects of human lives and on social and economic development in the mid 1990s, there was the need to address the numerous factors driving the HIV epidemic.
In order to help mount and support an expanded response to AIDS, the United Nations took an innovative approach in 1996, drawing six organizations together in a joint and cosponsored programme - the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
The six original Cosponsors of UNAIDS — the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank — were joined by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in April 1999 and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in October 2001.
Programmes
In Rwanda, the 2002-2006 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) is the key tool to support the government in its over arching goals of poverty reduction and peace building. One of the themes of the UNDAF is HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health. UNAIDS focuses on the following three goals under this theme:
enhanced capacity to formulate and implement policies and co-ordinate interventions for HIV/AIDS, STDs and RH;
strengthened Information, Education and Communication (IEC) initiatives on HIV/AIDS, STDs and RH for behavioural change;
improved quality services delivery in RH and support to HIV/AIDS infected and affected persons.
Read More
|
