About

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)

UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

UNAIDS vision:

• Zero new HIV infections
• Zero discrimination
• Zero AIDS-related deaths

UNAIDS fulfills its mission by:

• Uniting the efforts of the United Nations system, civil society, national governments, the private sector, global institutions and people living with and most affected by HIV;
• Speaking out in solidarity with people most affected by HIV in defense of human dignity, human rights and gender equality;
• Mobilising political, technical, scientific and financial resources and holding ourselves and others accountable for results;
• Empowering agents of change with strategic information and evidence to influence and ensure that resources are targeted where they deliver the greatest impact and bring about a prevention revolution; and
• Supporting inclusive country leadership for sustainable responses that are integral to and integrated with national health and development efforts.

The UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa

The UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNAIDS RST ESA) provides timely, quality and coherent technical support and advice to UNAIDS Country Coordinators and country offices in order to enable them to fully deliver on commitments to strengthen the national AIDS response.

The UNAIDS RST ESA covers the following 21 countries:

Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.