Thursday, July 2, 2009

Report of UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibe

Crisis, Opportunity & Transformation: AIDS Responses at the Crossroads

The world is facing a huge crisis at the moment, HIV is now “competing” with other crucial issues such as H1N1, food crisis, global warming and poverty, with 2 million deaths in a year.

UNAIDS had laid out several key objectives:
• Integrated HIV and TB services.
• End two-tiered system of treatment.
• Ensure people in need are on treatment.
• Urgent need to ensure affordable treatment.
• Break the trajectory on HIV epidemic.
• Focus on HIV prevention.
• Combination of prevention.
• Effective Harm Reduction Program.
• HIV prevention.
• Sexual transmission of HIV.
• Reducing sexual transmission of HIV.
• Halting sexual transmission of HIV.
• Focus on reaching more people most at risk.
• Engage country by country.
• Protect and promote human rights.
• Remove punitive law that blocks AIDS responses.
• Rights-based approaches to national policies on IDUs and migrants.
• Confront discrimination and decriminalisation of HIV and PLHIV.

HIV Prevention Research on the Cure
• Optimising and expanding partnerships.
• Intensive consultation.
• Strengthening partnerships.

• Partnerships with women’s movement by forming a committee and move the agenda on women forward, addressing women, girls, gender equality and HIV.

There is a need in the UNAIDS to transform itself into a more effective organisation that focus on limited set of priorities, accountable and carry clear objectives. Clarification on roles and links with other organisations are also necessary to be done as well as innovations in business practices. Internal changes within the Secretariat aimed to strengthen the accountability by establishing new department, evaluate the performance of ethic and organisation; and conduct second independent evaluation.

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