Global and regional report

This report reviews advances made over the past year or so in four areas where HIV and AIDS affect children. It finds that most countries have made important gains in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and in paediatric treatment. Some countries have made progress towards HIV prevention goals,and more AIDS-affected children are benefiting from protection, care and support services. But much more remains to be done. The report also explains the need for improved norms, standards and guidelines to ensure effective implementation of programmes.

This report assesses some of the most important actions and changes for children affected by AIDS that occurred in the first year of the global campaign Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS. Produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, the report notes promising developments - increasing numbers of children receiving treatment, declining HIV prevalence among young people resulting from behavioural change, and the integration of children and AIDS into national policy frameworks. Yet it also highlights the huge gaps in progress that remain and seeks to explore how the campaign must move forward in 2007 in order to achieve its ambitious goals.

This report presents the final results of the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive. It summarizes country progress from 2009 to 2015. Entitled “On the Fast-track to an AIDS-Free Generation”, the report also highlights programmatic interventions undertaken at the country, regional and global levels. The end of the Global Plan heralds the new effort to stop pediatric AIDS, Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free, which was launched in 2016.

How do we close the gap between the people moving forward and the people being left behind? This was the question we set out to answer in the UNAIDS Gap Report. Similar to the Global report, the goal of the Gap report is to provide the best possible data, but, in addition, to give information and analysis on the people being left behind.

To reduce new HIV infections globally to fewer than 500 000 by 2020, a step towards ending the HIV epidemic as a public health threat by 2030, we need to fast-track the response, including renewed commitment to, sustained funding for and scaled-up implementation of HIV prevention programmes.