UNICEF’s Vision for the Global HIV Response 2018 – 2021

UNICEF has long been at the heart of global efforts to put the HIV epidemic into an irreversible and rapid retreat. Under the Strategic Plan for 2018–2021, UNICEF will continue to align its HIV-related commitments to global goals and targets detailed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Political Declaration agreed to at the June 2016 United Nations High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS; the Fast Track Strategy to End AIDS developed and championed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); the United Nations Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health 2016–2030; the ‘Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free’ Framework for Ending AIDS in Children, Adolescent Girls; and the All In Framework to end AIDS in Adolescents and Young Women by 2020 that emerged following the success of the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive (Global Plan).

UNICEF Vision to address the global HIV epidemic (2017)

Option B+ M&E Framework (July 2015)

On July 29, 2015, the IATT organized a webinar to discuss the key components of the Option B+ M&E Framework. The webinar also featured country examples from Kenya and Uganda to share lessons learned on implementing some of the practices recommended in the framework. More than 80 participants attended the webinar from a wide range of countries including Liberia, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa to name a few. The webinar presentations and summary are linked below.

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Option B+ M&E Framework Webinar Summary
M&E Framework Highlights
Option B+ monitoring of HIV+ mother and HIV-exposed infants in Kenya
Implementation of early retention monitoring of HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women and data use in EMTCT programme
Option B+ M&E Framework: Next Steps, IATT MEWG co-chairs

Since 2009, UNICEF Nepal, FHI 360 and other partners have supported the Ministry of Health and Population to provide and expand community-based Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (CB-PMTCT) services. With increased access to PMTCT services, more children are born HIV-free.

Keeping families healthy in Nepal

The governments of Sweden, Norway and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are working together to encourage men to be involved in the health of their partners and children as a way to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child.

Positive Support in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Early testing and treatment and retention in care is the difference between life and death, especially for pregnant women and their babies. In Lesotho, where one in four people are living with HIV, services have become easier to access. Ntsejoa, 23, tells her story of how simplified and integrated services made a difference for her and her baby.

 

Integrating services to simplify care in Lesotho

The Community Health Worker pilot project began in Bouake in 2014 in order to make a difference in health care practices at a grassroots level and encourage more women to go to health centres, and keep their follow-up appointments.

Community outreach informs decision making

For over two years, UNICEF and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria followed six women living with HIV throughout their pregnancies in South Africa and Malawi, two countries hit very hard by HIV. Here are their journeys of delivering healthy babies free of HIV.

A journey of motherhood

Bertha is living with HIV and recently lost her oldest son to tuberculosis. But she also recently gave birth to Tecla, who, thanks to early testing and adherence to prevention of mother to child transmission, is free of HIV. Here, Bertha, bravely shares her sorrow, her joy and her hopes for the future. The story of integrated services is a simple and integral element of keeping people on treatment. Mothers and babies like Bertha and Tecla, and partners like PASADA, are building an AIDS-free generation.
 

Hope and Joy: A mother's story

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