Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS

Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS Program Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS
UNAIDS logo
Main building in Geneva , Switzerland
Organization type	program
Abbreviation	UNAIDS, ONUSIDA
management	Winnie Byanyima since November 1, 2019 Uganda
Founded	July 26, 1994
Headquarters	Pregny-Chambésy , Switzerland
Upper organization	United Nations
www.unaids.org

The Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS ( English Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS , UNAIDS ) is a project United Nations with the aim of the various HIV / AIDS - a pandemic to coordinate individual countries in the fight against AIDS activities. The organization's headquarters are in Pregny-Chambésy near Geneva, Switzerland .

An important function of UNAIDS is to collect data and the consequences of the epidemic, to record the social (living conditions of the infected) and to document the impact of the epidemic on the economy of the states.

UNAIDS supports the World AIDS Conference and publishes the Global HIV / AIDS Report twice a year .

history

It was created in 1996 from the Global Program on HIV / AIDS of the World Health Organization . HIV / AIDS cannot be fought in the medical sector alone, as it affects many aspects of human society because of the way the epidemic is transmitted and spread . In the early years of the spread of AIDS, the specialized agencies of the UN and the states each had their own programs, of which very few were pooled to increase their effectiveness. In order to better coordinate the activities of these programs, UNAIDS was founded.

The chairman was from December 12, 1994 to December 31, 2008 the Belgian Peter Piot , Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. His successor on December 1, 2008 was Michel Sidibé , who comes from Mali and, before joining UNAIDS, worked for the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF for 14 years . Shannon Hader was appointed Deputy Director in February 2019. Sidibé resigned in May 2019, and Gunilla Carlsson from Sweden was provisionally appointed as his successor.

For 2016, the organization had revenues of $ 229 million and expenses of $ 182 million.

management

The United Nations Joint Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) is led by an executive director. So far, the following people have held this office:

photo	Surname	Country	Term of office
	Peter Piot	Belgium	1994-2008
	Michel Sidibé	Mali	2009-2019
	Gunilla Carlsson	Sweden	May – Oct. 2019 provisional
	Winnie Byanyima	Uganda	Nov. 2019 -

Co-financing

In addition to the UN member states, UNAIDS is co-financed by ten organizations:

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• International Labor Organization (ILO)
• United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World bank

The Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) is a forum for co-sponsors and meets twice a year. It is chaired by one of the partner organizations. The chairmanship is awarded annually by rotation.

UN agencies working with UNAIDS

In order to fight HIV and AIDS effectively, UNAIDS coordinates the work of these special agencies of the UN:

• the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • for the protection of children with AIDS and children of parents with AIDS
• the World Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • for the protection of the populations directly or indirectly affected by AIDS
• the drug control program (UNDCP)
  • for the prevention and protection of drug addicts
• the international travel organization
  • for the protection and prevention of travelers with AIDS or those who are in close contact with them
• the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO)
  • for prevention and information about AIDS
• the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • for the coordination of medical forces
• the World Food Program (WFP)
  • to create access for the forces of prevention and protection
• the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
  • to help the countries affected by AIDS.
• the Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG)
  • The sixth development goal of the MDG deals with the fight against HIV / AIDS.

Web link

• Official website of UNAIDS (English, French, Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] accessed on December 9, 2019
2. ↑ UNAIDS: UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013 . ( Online (PDF; 1.4 MB) [accessed January 30, 2014]).
3. ↑ http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2019/february/20190212_shannon-hader
4. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/world/africa/un-aids-workplace-harassment.html accessed on July 4, 2019
5. ↑ Expenditure by Agency | United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination. Retrieved November 22, 2018 . 
6. ^ Committee of Sponsoring Organizations. UNAIDS, archived from the original on December 2, 2010 ; accessed on March 2, 2016 .