Partnering UNAIDS on universal access
04 June 2007
The Alliance has been reviewing with UNAIDS how to strengthen our strategic partnership and work together towards achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010.
As a UNAIDS collaborating centre, the Alliance will work to strengthen, among other things, the role of key populations and civil society in implementing and monitoring universal access. The Alliance is currently stimulating a debate on this issue with key regional stakeholders in Latin America and the Caribbean (through Foro Sida/VIH 2007 in Argentina, April), in Asia/Pacific (through the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, taking place in August 2007) and in Eastern Europe and Africa through the two regional AIDS conferences taking place in 2008. A proposal for a joint initiative with UNAIDS to support selected countries is also going to be discussed soon.
The three-year collaboration agreement, signed in October 2004, ends this year. The design, discussion and signature of the new Collaborative Center Agreement will take place over the next few months. The priority areas identified for the partnership have been defined as:
- country-level work on the role of civil society in universal access
- Three Ones and civil society
- mainstreaming and financing architecture
- human rights (stigma and discrimination, prevention, treatment and care)
- monitoring and evaluation for universal access targets
- collaboration in technical support delivery through GIST (the inter-agency mechanism for technical support to countries).
The Alliance's role on the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) in supporting civil society delegates was also discussed.
As well as working on specific areas of collaboration, improved mechanisms for communication and joint work will be created.
