HIV/AIDS Focus Areas

HIV/AIDS Focus Areas

1. HIV, MDGs and Development Planning

  • Mainstreaming HIV into national development plans, poverty reduction strategies, sector plans and United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs)
  • Linking AIDS planning and action to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) planning and action
  • Assessing and responding to the socio-economic determinants and impacts of AIDS, including implications of economic crises
  • Mainstreaming HIV into work with populations of humanitarian concern (including early recovery and disarmament/demobilization/re-integration) 
2. Governance of AIDS Responses
  • Enhancing capacity of National AIDS Councils and Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) for governance, coordination and accountability
  • Strengthening government, civil society and key population partnerships on AID
  • Strengthening district and municipal AIDS responses
  • Leadership development and community capacity enhancement
3. HIV, Human Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity
  • Facilitating enabling legal environments and rights based HIV policies and programmes, and strengthening capacity to address stigma and inappropriate criminalization
  • Addressing women, girls, gender equality, and gender based violence in HIV strategies, plans and programmes and vice versa
  • Addressing men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in HIV strategies, plans and programmes

4. Intellectual Property, Innovation and Access to Treatment

  • Increasing access to AIDS treatment by incorporating public health related TRIPS flexibilities into national legislation and utilizing existing legislation and tools, south-south co-operation and global initiatives on innovation and public health

5. Implementation Capacity: Global Fund/Multilateral Health Funding

  • Supporting the effective performance of Global Fund financed programmes (where UNDP is Principal Recipient)
  • Enhancing capacity of national Principal Recipients and sub-recipients to effectively implement Global Fund financed programmes (where a national entity is PR)
  • Supporting the implementation of the World Bank and UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded Central Asia AIDS Control Project.