UNAIDS Cosponsoring
Agencies/Partners in Thailand and their Highlights
Cosponsors
‘UNESCO’s
Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok
is the technical advisory body to all field offices and
Member States of the region and the site of regional programmes
in areas covered by the Education Sector. It also houses
regional advisory units in Culture and Social and Human
Sciences and staff from the Communication and Information
Sector and from the Science sector. The HIV/AIDS Coordination
and School Health Unit of UNESCO Bangkok is specifically
working on HIV/AIDS and school health issues and providing
technical assistance to the education sector of Member
States in this region’. [more
detail]
UNFPA Contributing
to Poverty Reduction through improved reproductive health,
population & development, and promoting gender equality
in developing countries. [more detail]
WHO What is "3 by 5 Initiative" of WHO? The answer is "Treating 3 million by 2005": WHO and its partners are working with full commitment to provide access of ART to 3 million people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries by the end of 2005. [more detail]
UNICEF Child Rights, Rights of all children and young people to knowledge, skills and services for HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
[more detail]
WFP believes
that food aid is essential in the fight against HIV and
AIDS
WFP attempts to lessen the effects of HIV and AIDS on a community in a number of ways, mainly by improving food security and securing the livelihoods of those affected by the illness. [more detail]
UNODC
UNODC encourages new responses to the linked issues of
drug abuse and HIV/AIDS through the development of multisectoral
partnerships that pursue; better understanding of the
drug abuse and HIV/AIDS trends, and responses; integrated
national policies and programme plans; improved responses
within custodial settings including drug abuse treatment
services and prisons; and strong national and regional
networks for the exchange of information, ideas and expertise. [more detail]
UNDP's
role is to advocate for placing HIV/AIDS at the centre
of national development planning and budgeting, promote
a broad-based response to the epidemic that rallies partners
well beyond the public health sector, build capacity of
local governments and community organization in support
of a decentralized response, and promote the human rights
of people living with HIV/AIDS
[more detail]
World Bank--in
partnership with others-- is working to roll back the
spread of this global epidemic. As the largest long-term
investor in prevention and mitigation of HIV/AIDS in developing
countries, the World Bank Group is working with its partners
to:
Prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS among vulnerable
groups and in the general population;
Promote countries' health policies and multi-sectoral
approaches (e.g. by working in education, social safety
nets, transport and other vital areas);
Expand basic care and treatment activities for those affected
by HIV/AIDS and their families, as well as for children
whose parents have died of AIDS and other vulnerable children.
[more detail]
ILO is
the UN agency with responsibility for the world of work.
It promotes decent work and productive employment, based
on principles of social justice and equality. It has a
special place in the fight against AIDS because of its
links with the workplace and the active population [more detail]
PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01800AFDUNHCR
considers HIV prevention an essential component of its overall protection of refugees.
With 5,000 staff in more than 120 countries often in remote locations,
UNHCR is in a unique position to provide HIV/AIDS programs to refugees and people of concern.
[more detail]
Partners
UNIFEM
works worldwide to promote gender equality between women
and men and to advance the status of women. In the field
of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, UNIFEM undertakes various activities
to address gender dimension of HIV/AIDS. Those activities
include: advocacy for national and community action to
protect women and girls from HIV/AIDS; promotion of the
human rights of women living with and/or directly affected
by HIV/AIDS; and provision of technical inputs to partner
agencies for engendering their HIV/AIDS responses. [more detail]
IOM
advocates and works in collaboration with partners to enhance national and regional responses to
HIV/AIDS, employing a rights-based approach to bring AIDS prevention and access to care and support
services to mobile populations. [more detail]
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in Thailand.
12th Floor, United Nations Building, Rajdamnern Nok Avenue
Bangkok 10200, Thailand.
Tel.(662)228-1203, Fax(662)208-1414
