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.
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