UNICEF expresses its sincere appreciation to all the donors that have supported our work in the thematic area of HIV/AIDS and children and have made possible the results described in this report. In particular, we are grateful to the governments of Sweden, Liechtenstein and Canada. Special thanks also go to the UNICEF National Committees of Korea, Netherlands, Finland, United States and the United Kingdom, which have contributed generously. Thematic funding is important because it provides greater flexibility and longer-term planning and sustainability of programmes in order to achieve our MTSP results.
ACRONYMS
AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome
ANC antenatal care
ART antiretroviral therapy
ARV antiretroviral
CARI children and AIDS regional initiative
CEE/CIS Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
CHAI Clinton health access initiative (CHAI)
EAPRO East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
eMTCT global plan to eliminate new HIV infections in children by 2015
ESARO Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
GFATM global fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
GNP+ global network of people living with HIV
HIV human immunodeficiency virus
HPTN HIV prevention trials network
IATT interagency task team
ICT information communication technology
MBP mother baby pack
MDG Millennium Development Goal
MENA Middle East and North Africa
MNCH maternal, newborn and child health
MTCT mother-to-child transmission
MTSP Medium-Term Strategic Plan
PEPFAR United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS
PLWH people living with HIV
PMTCT prevention of mother-to-child transmission
ROSA Regional Office for South Asia
STI sexually transmitted infection
TACRO Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNGASS United Nations General Assemly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
UNITAID international drug purchase facility
WCARO West and Central Africa Regional Office
ENDNOTES
1 The relevant Millennium Development Goals are: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (Goal 1); Achieve universal primary
education (Goal 2); Promote gender equality and empower women (Goal 3); Reduce child mortality (Goal 4); Improve maternal health (Goal 5); Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (Goal 6).
2 UNICEF. Taking Evidence to Impact: Making a difference for vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS. 2011. 3 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
4 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
5 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
6 UNAIDS. UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, 2010.
7 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
8 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
9 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
10 Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011
11 Schwartländer, B., et. al, ‘Towards an Improved Investment Approach for an effective response to HIV/AIDS’, The Lancet, V337,
June 11, 2011, 2031-41.
12 Schwartländer B, AIDS. Resource needs for HIV/AIDS. Science. 2001 Jun 29;292(5526):2434-6 13 WHO. Women and Health: Today’s evidence tomorrow’s agenda. 2009
14 WHO. Women and Health: Today’s evidence tomorrow’s agenda. 2009 15 Source needed
16 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
17 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
18 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
19 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
20 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
21 Eastern and Southern Africa (from 52 per cent to 61 per cent), Central Asia (from 73 per cent to 84 per cent) and East, South and
South-East Asia (from 18 per cent to 30 per cent).
22 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
23 UNICEF. Opportunity in Crisis: Prevening HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood. June 2011.
24 Angola, Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya,
Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
25 Researchers use ‘serodiscordant’ to describe couples where one individual is HIV-positive and the other is HIV-negative. 26 Grant, et al. Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention
in Men Who Have Sex with Men. New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 363. No 27. Dec, 30, 2010.
27 Karim et al. Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women.
Science. Sep. 2010. Vol. 239, n. 5996. pp. 1168-1174.
28 UNICEF. Taking Evidence to Impact: Making a difference for vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS. 2011. 29 Socially marginalized populations vary by setting, but science has demonstrated increased risk for HIV infection among certain
populations across cultural settings: injection drug users (IDU), men who have sex with men (MSM) and sex workers
30 Data on sub-Saharan Africa refer to the most recent year available for 2005-2010.
31 UNICEF. Opportunity in Crisis: Prevening HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood. June 2011. 32 UNICEF. Opportunity in Crisis: Prevening HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood. June 2011. 33 UNICEF. Opportunity in Crisis: Prevening HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood. June 2011.
34 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011
35 UNICEF. Opportunity in Crisis: Prevening HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood. June 2011.
36 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
37 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
38 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
39 WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access. Progress Report. 2011.
40 AIS, DHS, MICS and other national household surveys, 2005-2009 41 UNAIDS. Making the law work for the HIV response, 2010. 42 2011 expenditure data is provisional.