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The Future of UNAIDS: Leave Your Comments on Recommendations of New Report
April 10, 2009
On April 3rd, The Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations(CCO), a forum for the 10 cosponsoring UN agencies who work on HIV/AIDS, met for the first time since Michel Sidibé took up his post as the next Executive Director at UNAIDS. The meeting, one of two held by the CCO ever year, was the first opportunity for the group to meet with Mr. Sidibé.
It was encouraging to see that topics discussed at the meeting were consistent with recommendations of a recent CGD report, including an emphasis on UNAIDS as an advocate for an evidence informed AIDS response that is grounded in human rights, and the need for accountability and results. The UNAIDS Leadership Transition Working Group, co-chaired by Ruth Levine of the Center and Ngaire Woods of Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford, recently released its final report UNAIDS: Preparing for the Future, which contains a set of recommendations for Mr. Sidibé and the Board of UNAIDS:
-Track government commitments and drive a long-term, strategic agenda on HIV/AIDS that includes strengthening health systems and building national self-sufficiency
-Take a firm stand to promote policy guidance that is based on evidence and centered on human rights
-Promote comprehensive care in prevention, treatment, and support, particularly in underpromoted intervention areas
-Focus on creating more opportunities for marginalized voices in national policymaking
-Reduce wasteful capacity-building efforts by brokering higher-quality, long-term, locally demanded technical support
-Enhance coordination within the UN family and with other donors, and use clear milestones to track progress
-Examine the structure, management, and operations of UNAIDS
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4 Responses to “The Future of UNAIDS: Leave Your Comments on Recommendations of New Report”
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April 12th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Honestly, if these are the most important tasks that UNAIDS should focus on, the global community would do better to shut down UNAIDS and merge these functions into other parts of the international aid bureaucracy. Why do you need a Geneva based UN organization to broker technical support or enhance coordination? Surely the host governments should be doing this. Tracking government commitments? There are a host of NGO’s who will do a better job of it. Evidence based policy guidance? What is WHO and the World Bank for? When UNAIDS was created, there was a credible argument that AIDS was not getting the attention it deserved. Now one could argue it has received more than it deserves. Job is done, so wind it up. Coordination will be enhanced by having one less cook in the kitchen.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:29 am
UNAIDS was the first agency to coordinate effectively at the international level. The WHO’s global AIDS program was ineffective at best. I think they have proven their mettle over the last decade plus. They might want to take on a modified mission over the next decade and streamline the aid provision mechanisms coming from 100+ different parities.
January 26th, 2010 at 10:17 am
As an expert and a specialist in Repproductive and family Health, I believe that UNAIDS is seriously doing fine in the area of public enlightenment on the deadly HIV/AIDS scourge. The only thing I want to recommend is that, some of us that are expert in Reproductive and family health in developing country, such as Nigeria should be invited into the organization to give a comparative analysis of the kind of knowledge, believe, attitude and perception of people in this community to that of other countries of the world. This would give more succinct ways of disseminating information to help people in different ways of preventing HIV/AIDS in their countries.
Dr O. ‘Lanre OLAITAN
January 26th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Thank you, the organization is moving forward. We are ready to give full professional support in terms of education to the board.