- Author
- UNESCAP Committee on Emerging Social Issues
- Title
- Health and Development: Selected Issues: Tackling HIV/AIDS as a Development Challenge
- Imprint
- UNESCAP, 4-6 September 2003, 21 pp
- Description
Reproduced with UNESCAP's kind permission.
- Abstract
"Many of the key drivers of HIV infection are socio-economic in origin. Thus, an effective response to mitigate the devastating consequences of an HIV/AIDS pandemic must address broader development factors. This document complements and follows upon ESCAP documentation on the theme topic of HIV/AIDS that had been prepared for the fifty-ninth session of the Commission. Thus, it is intended to serve as a road
map for expanding multiministerial responses to HIV/AIDS.
This document focuses on strategic planning to tackle HIV/AIDS as a development challenge. In this regard, strategic planning involves planning and directing a crucial campaign to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 (Millennium Development Goal 6, Target 7). Key principles in this approach include national leadership at the highest levels and the participation of stakeholders throughout the process. Another
key operational principle is the integration of HIV/AIDS concerns into national development policies and programmes. This reinforces political commitment at the highest level, places the national AIDS response within a long-term development ethos, coordinates the response across government ministries and creates a wider national partnership."