United Nations Joint Team on HIV and AIDS

 

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UNAIDS Bangladesh, works to ensure a coordinated effort by the UN in the response to HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh. The programme works in partnership under a joint plan of action with the United Nations Joint Team.

 

The programme’s efforts are delineated on the basis of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS).

 

The Joint Team intends to facilitate an enabling environment to support and promote an appropriate and adequate national response to HIV/AIDS. This includes coordination of responses regarding prevention, care, support and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), capacity building for government, non-government and private organizations, and working together in the development and implementation of both proactive and responsive HIV/AIDS programming, including the mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS across all sectoral programmes and policy development and implementation.

 

To this end, the UN Country Team in Bangladesh emphasized ‘HIV and AIDS’ as one of the six priorities for the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2005-2010.

 

In line with the UNDAF, the UN support to HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh aims to achieve the following goals:

 

§   A comprehensive national response is in place including increased capacity across the nation

 

§   People are able to protect themselves from HIV infection

 

The UN Millennium Development Goals provide the overarching framework for the UN interagency collaboration, particularly the achievement of Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases.

 

The targets of Millennium Development Goal 6 include:

 

§         Halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

§         Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

 

Strategically, the UN joint team is guided by the management principles of the Three Ones, for effective national AIDS responses:

 

One agreed AIDS action framework that provides the basis for coordinating the work of all partners;

 

One national AIDS coordinating authority with broad-based multi-sector mandate;

 

One agreed country level monitoring and evaluation system.