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UNAIDS
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UNAIDS - was initiated in 1996 to serve as a coordinator for UN activities in the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS.
Earlier, the WHO had the primary responsibility for AIDS in the United Nations. But by the mid-1990s, it became clear that the relentless spread of HIV and its impact on human lives and on social and economic development required an expanded and coordinated United Nations effort. UNAIDS operates as a secretariat for the programmes involved in the struggle against AIDS in cooperation with UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNESCO, UNODC, WHO, WFP, World Bank and ILO ensuring better coordination among its partners in the UN system, governments, civil society, donors, the private sector and others.
Documentation
The UNAIDS official web site provides background information, news, regional and country analyses and full text reports, documents and data on the AIDS situation.
The United Nations has issued key documents with recommendations on the struggle against HIV/AIDS:
The General Assembly A/S-26/2, August 2, 2001: Declaration on Commitment on HIV/AIDS.
Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2010 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive launched by the 2011 United Nations High Level Meeting on Aids.
UNAIDS Report of the Global AIDS Epedemic contains data from 182 countries with analysis on the AIDS situation.
Millennium Development Goals, Goal 6.
In June 2001, Heads of State and Representatives of Governments met at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, June 25-27 2001.
Statistics and surveys, programs and documents can be accessed from the official web sites of the UN bodies involved in the struggle against AIDS: WHO, UNICEF, UNODC, World Bank, UN Women, FAO, ILO, UNFPA, UNESCO.
Yearbook of the United Nations provides an overview of the United Nations work relevant to UN action HIV/AIDS. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The WHO database Global Health Atlas collects the most recent country-specific data on the spread and impact of the virus, information on risk behaviours and treatment.
A web portal to United Nations programmes on HIV/AIDS linking to UN main bodies and focal points and full text documents and reports is posted at the Official web site of the United Nations, section Global Issues, AIDS.
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links to full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Printed Indexes