World AIDS Day, 1 December 2007

Additional Resources

United Nations Sites

• Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation
  of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
  
  
• UN System HIV+ Staff Group
  
  
• Global Issue on the United Nations Agenda
  
  
• United Nations CyberSchoolBus
  HIV/AIDS
  
  
• The UN Works
  What's going on? Kids and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
  Danny Glover, UNDP's Goodwill Ambassador

United Nations Events

• 2006 High-Level Meeting on AIDS: Uniting the world against AIDS (31 May - 2 June 2006, United Nations, New York)
  
  
• General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (25 - 27 June 2001, United Nations, New York)

Documentation

• Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS - A/RES/60/262 (2006)
• Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: five years later - Report of the Secretary-General - A/60/736 (2006)
• 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic (2006)
• Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: "Global Crisis — Global Action" (2001)
• Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS (ILO)
• Good Policy and Practice in HIV & AIDS and Education (UNESCO)
• Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings (UNFPA)
• More documents on the OHCHR web site

United Nations System

• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations to the global AIDS response. Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. Based in Geneva, the UNAIDS secretariat works on the ground in more than 75 countries worldwide.
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  HIV and AIDS, threats to rural development
  
  
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  Fighting AIDS
  
  
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  AIDS and Poverty
  
  
• International Labor Organization (ILO)
  Why AIDS is a workplace issue
  
  
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights (OHCHR)
  HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
  
  
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  HIV/AIDS and children
  Campaign: "Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS"
  Voices of Youth
  
  
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
  Gender and HIV/AIDS
  HIV/AIDS
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  HIV/AIDS
  
  
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  UNESCO's Action against HIV/AIDS
  EDUCAIDS [pdf]
  
  
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  Preventing HIV Infection
  
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  Refugees and HIV/AIDS
  
  
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  Prevention of HIV/AIDS Associated with Drug Abuse
  
  
• UN Volunteers (UNV)
  UN Volunteers and HIV/AIDS
  
  
• World Bank
  HIV/AIDS
• You Think!
  
  
• World Food Programme (WFP)
  Hunger and HIV
  
  
• World Health Organsation (WHO)
  WHO and HIV/AIDS
  Universal Access by 2010
  Pediatric HIV and treatment of children living with HIV
  HIV infections
  Voices of hope: stories from communities affected by HIV and AIDS (photos)