Adopts the decisions, recommendations and conclusions of the 19th UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting.
Adopts the decisions, recommendations and conclusions of the 19th UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting.
Recognizes that the complex links between security, humanitarian emergencies and HIV vulnerability and services demand further research, and requests UNAIDS to advocate, support and collaborate in such research; and
9.7 Calls on UNAIDS to intensify programmatic efforts on the intersection between genderbased violence and HIV, including but not limited to situations of conflict, particularly acknowledging the unique contributions of women survivors and those affected by violence.
Requests UNAIDS to strengthen AIDS responses in humanitarian emergencies and security operations including through, inter alia, the development of a strategic framework for action between the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UNAIDS; pursuing membership or formal association between the UNAIDS Secretariat and the global-level United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee and through strengthened leadership in the Task Force on AIDS and Security;
Calls on both national governments and international donors to ensure that AIDS is accounted for in humanitarian preparedness and response, including needs assessments and further calls on international donors to adapt development and humanitarian funding instruments to allow sufficient AIDS funding in humanitarian response and during the transition between emergency and recovery and reconstruction periods;
Recommends that UNAIDS address the impact of AIDS on key government cadres other than the military, including the judiciary, police and local government, and recognizes that programmes must target other institutions and groups, taking into account the demands and challenges of the particular epidemic;
Endorses the efforts of UNAIDS and its partners (such as the Department of Peacekeeping Operations), to continue addressing AIDS within national uniformed services and peacekeeping forces, including through the better integration of military with civilian national AIDS programmes and the promotion of comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support services;
Recognizing that AIDS policies and programmes are not consistently integrated into security and humanitarian responses, calls on UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators, UN Country Teams and UNAIDS Country Coordinators to actively address the AIDS needs of emergency-affected populations and uniformed services at country level, through promoting the systematic use of existing guidelines, through building and sustaining AIDS mainstreaming capacity within UN Country Teams and national partners, and through the cluster approach in humanitarian responses and to develop stronger linkages between humanitarian recovery and national development responses;
Decides to establish a process under the leadership of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board, in close consultation with Board members and observers and with the support of the UNAIDS Secretariat, to elaborate further on the UNAIDS role in strengthening Global Coordination of AIDS and how to develop the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board into a more relevant and effective policy-making Board; the process will include matters such as number of Board meetings, venues, character of meetings, Board representation, NGO participation, speaking protocol, decision-making and the further development of the constituency system; a report with recommendations will be presented to the 20th Programme Coordinating Board in June 2007.
Takes further note of the consolidation of mandates originating from decisions of UN principal bodies.
Takes note of the consolidation of active tasks into broad functions clustered under the strategic directions of the 2007-2010 strategic framework for UNAIDS’ support to countries’ efforts to move towards universal access; and
Endorses the list of active tasks proposed for retirement and requests the Secretariat to regularly review tasks for potential retirement;
Decides to be mindful of the intrinsic nature of the guiding principles in its production of concrete, actionable and time-bound decisions, recommendations and conclusions;
Reaffirms the five guiding principles, as amended, as intrinsic in all Programme Coordinating Board recommendations, decisions and conclusions, and decides to include them as a preamble to all sets of future Programme Coordinating Board decisions, recommendations and conclusions;
Welcomes the Secretariat’s pledge to make relevant changes to the final Strategic Framework reflecting the written comments provided in support of the interventions made during the 19th Programme Coordinating Board meeting.