 | Facts about UNAIDS: an overview (UNAIDS, 1997, 11 p.) |
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Key roles of UNAIDS
Even as the epidemic expands, many countries are being forced to scale back their support for social, health and welfare activities, nationally and internationally. This gives further urgency to efforts to ensure that existing resources, both financial and technical, are used most efficiently and effectively.
UNAIDS is not a funding agency, although it will support selected activities. As a small catalytic programme with just 160 professional and support staff foreseen worldwide, UNAIDS works primarily through the UN cosponsors in countries and focuses its time and energy on the following roles.
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Policy Development and Research |
To identify, develop and be a major source of international best practice, that is, identifying effective and ethical policies and strategies for prevention and care, and promoting and supporting relevant research to develop new tools and approaches to HIV/AIDS. |
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Technical Collaboration |
To help government departments, community groups and others build capacity to manage their own response to the epidemic, especially in developing countries. |
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Advocacy |
To speak out for a comprehensive response to HIV/ AIDS that is technically, ethically and strategically sound, and is provided with adequate resources. |
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Coordination |
To strengthen and streamline action by the cosponsors and other UN bodies in support of the national response to HIV/AIDS. |