Roles, responsibilities and partnerships

Roles, responsibilities and partnerships
It is essential that UNAIDS and its Cosponsors should continue, expand and coordinate their
work across agencies on male-to-male sex and transgender people as part of the strategy
development and implementation process. Agencies will work together on many aspects, but each
agency, in relation to its mandate, division of labour and agreement, will lead in particular areas.
The UNAIDS Secretariat will lead in the use of strategic information and
coordination of advocacy efforts, as well as integration of efforts relating to men who
have sex with men and transgender people with wider HIV-related efforts.
UNDP will lead on issues relating to men who have sex with men and transgender
people as a whole, within the context of its gender and human rights mandate, and
will work with UNAIDS and other Cosponsors to develop and implement a strategy
to enhance the Secretariat’s and Cosponsors’ work on men who have sex with men,
transgender people and HIV-related issues.
WHO will be focusing on the responses in the health sector to HIV prevention
and treatment as well as sexual and reproductive health services and leading
strategic information—such as definitions, population size estimations, biological
and behavioural surveillance, and programme monitoring and evaluation, including
facility-based recording and reporting and use of these and other data for evidencebased
service planning and quality improvement.
UNODC will focus on injecting drug use among men who have sex with men
and transgender people and on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in
men’s prisons.