UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

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This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). UNAIDS uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. As the United Nation’s (UN) principal advocate for action on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS works to prevent the transmission of HIV, provide treatment and care for people living with the disease, reduce the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV, and alleviate the epidemic’s impact worldwide. UNAIDS’ vision is to achieve the goal of ‘zero new infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths’. UNAIDS brings together the resources of the UNAIDS Secretariat and 11 United Nations organizations for a coordinated and accountable response to the epidemic. UNAIDS is unique in that it was designed to work both at the country level, through other UN organizations, and globally, in the areas of global advocacy and technical guidance.