
| Facts about UNAIDS: in individual countries (UNAIDS, 1997, 13 p.) |
UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it is cosponsored by six UN system organizations: 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.
Through its own staff in Geneva and the field, and together with its cosponsors and other partners around the world, UNAIDS leads and catalyses an expanded response to the epidemic to improve prevention and care, reduce people's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and alleviate the epidemic's devastating social and economic impact.