The Joint United Nations Programme

UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the leading advocate for global action on HIV/AIDS. It brings together eight
UN agencies in a common effort to fight the epidemic: the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), the
International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health
Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.
UNAIDS both mobilizes the responses to the epidemic of its eight cosponsoring organizations and supplements these efforts with special
initiatives. Its purpose is to lead and assist an expansion of the international response to HIV on all fronts: medical, public health, social,
economic, cultural, political and human rights. UNAIDS works with a broad range of partners – governmental and NGO, business, scientific
and lay – to share knowledge, skills and best practice across boundaries.