- About UNAIDS
- Our work
- Targets and commitments
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
- Avoiding TB deaths
- Closing the resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
Since 1946 UNICEF has been the world’s leader for children, working in 158 countries to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence.
UNICEF is a Cosponsor of UNAIDS and under the UNAIDS division of labour it is lead agency on care and support of people living with HIV, children and orphans, and procurement. It is co-lead on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission.
HIV is one of the core priorities within its Medium-Term Strategic Plan 2006–2013. It focuses its support to countries on “Four P” priority areas:
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV;
- Paediatric HIV care and treatment;
- Protection, care and support for children affected by HIV and AIDS; and
- HIV prevention among adolescents and young people.
UNICEF also provides support to healthcare delivery systems in resource-constrained areas and the management of HIV supplies needed by children and their parents.
Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS.
The Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign, launched in 2005, first drew the world’s attention to children, the missing face of AIDS. It is a global call to action to all those working to protect children from the impact of HIV. More
Children and AIDS: Stocktaking Report
The annual Children and AIDS: Stocktaking Report takes a hard look at global progress in prevention, testing, treatment and support for children affected by HIV and their parents.
- Children and AIDS: Fifth Stocktaking Report (UNICEF/UNAIDS/WHO/UNFPA/UNESCO, 2010)
Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission
- Guidance on ensuring effective supply chain planning for commodities needed for implementation and scale up of services for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV infection (UNICEF, 2008)
- Guidance on global scale-up of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (WHO/UNICEF/UNAIDS, 2007)
Paediatric HIV care and treatment
- Scaling up early infant diagnosis and linkages to care and treatment (UNICEF, 2009)
- Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected infants and children: Practical approaches to implementation and scale up (WHO/UNICEF, 2009)
- Scale up of HIV-related prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for infants and children: A Programming Framework (WHO/UNICEF, 2008)
Social protection of children
- Developing and operationalizing a national monitoring and evaluation system for the protection, care and support of orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS (UNICEF, 2009)
- Children, AIDS and the economic crisis (UNICEF, 2009)
- Expanding social protection for vulnerable children and families (IATT children and HIV, 2008)
- Enhanced protection for children affected by AIDS (UNICEF, 2007)
- The framework for the protection, care and support of orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS (UNICEF/UNAIDS/UNESCO/WHO, 2004)
HIV prevention for young people
- Global Guidance on HIV and Young People (UNAIDS IATT/YP, 2008)
- Accelerating HIV prevention programming with and for most-at-risk adolescents (UNICEF, 2006)
- Preventing HIV/AIDS in Young People: A systematic review (WHO, 2006)
- Young people speak out: Meeting our rights to HIV prevention and care (UNICEF, 2004)
IATT on Children and HIV and AIDS
Inter-Agency Task Team on Children and HIV and AIDS was created in 2002 and is led by UNICEF. More
Voices of Youth
Voices of Youth offers children and young people a supportive online space within which they can explore, discuss and partner on issues relevant to them including HIV. It aims to develop awareness, leadership, community building, and critical thinking skills through active participation with peers and decision makers globally. More
Contact
HIV/AIDS Section, UNICEF New York
3 UN Plaza, H-10A, New York, NY 10017, USA
Tel: +1.212.326.7000
E-Mail: hivinfo@unicef.org
Learn more
Visit the UNICEF web site to learn more about its response to HIV. More
UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”