Further agrees to request the Programme Coordinating Board Bureau to take appropriate and timely steps to ensure that due process is followed in the call for themes for the 34th and 35th Programme Coordinating Board meetings, as necessary;
9.1: Next Programme Coordinating Board meetings
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Agrees that the theme for the 33rd Programme Coordinating Board meeting be “HIV and young people” and that the theme of “Strategic use of ARVs for treatment and prevention of HIV” be addressed by the PCB in 2013 as a regular agenda item;
6.9: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Calls upon UNAIDS to foster further research regarding public health and HIV prevention impact, ethical aspects, and cost effectiveness of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and treatment as prevention in different epidemic settings;
6.7: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Takes note of the HIV prevention goals and targets adopted in the 2011 UN General Assembly Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS which calls on governments, programme managers, donors, civil society and all stakeholders to support and extend the reach of efficient, ethical, and evidence-based epidemiologically appropriate comprehensive prevention efforts;
6.8: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Encourages governments to promote investments in research and development as appropriate and the availability of new and affordable prevention technologies;
6.6: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Requests UNAIDS to work with governments, together with research and implementing partners, to refine methods to assess the impact of behavior-change programming in order to ensure the greatest impact and value-for-money;
6.5: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Notes with concern that a substantial number of People Living with HIV are unable to access or remain in fully effective treatment and care, as shown by analyses of the treatment cascade and calls for urgent steps to keep people alive with the highest attainable standard of health and to stop new infections;
6.4: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Further calls for all national and international AIDS responses to be guided by the most up to date evidence of impact and effectiveness, including the use in all settings of validated estimates of HIV incidence through the best available methods;
6.2: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Calls on UNAIDS, governments, civil society organisations and other development partners to increase the focus on all dimensions of evidence-based combination prevention;
6.3: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Calls on governments to work with research institutions in public and private sectors, and with civil society, especially people living with and affected by HIV, to identify and address the key barriers – in particular the human resource and systems’ weaknesses– to the implementation of evidence based and country specific existing prevention technologies;
6.1: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 30th PCB meeting
17 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Takes note of the summary report of the Thematic Session on combination prevention;
Interventions on Non-Discrimination
14 December 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
The full-day thematic on non-discrimination offered examples from governments, institutions and civil society of best practices to counter and decrease HIV discrimination. Below is a list of civil society observer interventions which provided the most powerful examples to the Board.
Call for Submissions: Thematic on Non-Discrimination
31 August 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
The UNAIDS PCB NGO Delegation would like your submissions for the upcoming board meeting’s thematic on non-discrimination. At each Programme Coordinating Board meeting there is one day dedicated to reviewing and discussing a thematic issue. In the past few years, thematics have covered combination prevention, HIV and the law, food and nutrition security and sexual and reproductive health.
For the non-discrimination thematic, we’ve been asked to provide country-level inputs. UNAIDS is requesting examples of concrete initiatives and programmes that have actually worked to effectively reduce, provide redress and/or overcome obstacles in regard to discrimination against people living with HIV, women, young people, men who have sex with men, sex workers, people who use drugs, prisoners and other key populations most affected by the HIV epidemic, with a focus on but not limited to the following sectors:
6.2: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 29th PCB meeting
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Calls upon UNAIDS to enhance its support to Member States in their efforts to implement the recommendations under this agenda item;
6.1: Follow-up to the thematic segment from the 29th PCB meeting
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Calls upon States, in implementation of the 2011 Political Declaration and bearing in mind its paragraphs relevant to this decision, with the support of UNAIDS and civil society, to1 :
i. Work towards achieving an enabling legal environment supportive of effective national AIDS response by intensifying national efforts to create enabling legal frameworks through law, law enforcement, and access to justice;
