ing policy makers, prison administrators and prison staff.
In April 2005, UNODC organized a Ministerial meeting on the “Urgent response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Commonwealth of Independent States”
stimulating dialogue between and among the ministers and the executive heads of the UNAIDS cosponsoring agencies.
In September 2005, UNODC convened an interagency consultative meeting on "HIV/
AIDS as it relates to human trafficking".
The meeting, attended by UNAIDS cospon-soring organizations, other United Nations agencies and International Organization for Migration, agreed on a process to develop a collaborative United Nations system-wide response to the problem. The response emphasizes joint United Nations activities at the country level and aims to avoid dupli-cation and fragmentation. It is expected that a system-wide policy and strategy will be finalised by mid-2006.
In October 2005, UNODC co-organized with the Government of Canada, UNAIDS and Open Society Institute, the 3rd International Policy Dialogue on HIV/AIDS specifically addressing the issue of HIV/AIDS in prison settings. The meeting, attended by policy makers and experts, served to stimulate the development of effective policy and legis-lation at the country level to address HIV/
AIDS prevention, care and treatment in prison settings.
In November 2005, UNODC organized an expert group meeting on “Measuring and
increasing coverage of HIV/AIDS preven-tion and care services for injecting drug users”. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a rapid and feasible methodology on how to determine the coverage of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for injecting drug users and identify the main elements of a strategic approach to increase the coverage of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for injecting drug users both at the city level and sub-national or national level.
2. Preventing HIV infection and reducing vulnerability: in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central, South, Southeast and East Asia, UNODC initiated multicountry technical assistance projects to address pre-vention of HIV among drug users through advocacy, policy and programme develop-ment, including diversification of treatment for drug dependence.
3. Supporting research and operational devel-opment: UNODC worked with the UNAIDS Secretariat and WHO to publish a Joint Position Paper on Substitution Treatment, four policy briefs on injecting drug use, and the Advocacy Guide: HIV/AIDS prevention among injecting drug users. UNODC’s flag-ship document, the World Drug Report 2004 included a section on HIV/AIDS.
4. Monitoring and evaluation: in Brazil, UNODC commissioned a mid-term evalu-ation of a UNODC community-based out-reach project, which the evaluators found to have contributed to Brazil’s ‘enormous and largely successful effort to contain the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.’
The main United Nations organization concerned with the world of work, the ILO recognizes the workplace as one of the best opportunities for delivering HIV prevention, counselling, testing, treatment, care and support to working adults and their families. In 2004, some of its achievements included the following.
1. Mobilizing leadership in the world of work by providing training to implement work-place policies and programmes; training for 55 businesses in India; Indian Railways.
2. Scaling up country-level action to implement the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and world of work:
in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, ILO pro-vided technical support to develop policies and programmes consistent with the Code;
in seven countries, ILO collaborated with the United States Department of Labor to pro-vide training for workplace action on AIDS;
in eight African countries, ILO worked with the International Organization of Employers to promote and support workplace action;
ILO developed guidelines for workplace action in key sectors, including education, health, transport, mining, tourism, and agri-culture.
3. Supporting care, support and treatment in the workplace:
ILO supports access to counselling, testing and treatment through occupational health programmes in numerous countries;
in Botswana, ILO supported scale-up and replication of a project to ensure access to treatment through social health insurance;
ILO worked with social security experts to monitor and respond to the impact of AIDS on health insurance.
4. Tracking, monitoring and evaluating responses to AIDS in the workplace by devel-oping indicators for AIDS programmes in the United Nations workplace and by incorporat-ing AIDS questions into all ILO workplace surveys.
5. Supporting the mobilization of resources by developing fact sheets on funding sources, guidance on proposal writing, and promot-ing inclusion of workplace components in Global Fund proposals.
International Labour Organization
UNESCO is particularly concerned with the role that education, in the broadest sense, can play in reducing the spread of HIV and, also, with the impact of AIDS on countries’ education systems.
In 2004-2005, UNESCO was the leading UNAIDS Cosponsor involved in launching the EDUCAIDS initiative (Global Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Education). In 2005 EDUCAIDS was made an integral part of the Education for all programme.
Key recent achievements in the roll out of EDUCAIDS include the following.
1. In Cambodia, as chair of the United Nations Theme Group on HIV/AIDS and of the Partnership Forum on Education, there have been strong efforts to ensure the full commit-ment of UNESCO on HIV prevention educa-tion. The Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport welcomed the timing of EDUCAIDS, as part of a new strategy on Education and HIV/AIDS for 2006–2010 (funded by DfID).
2. Technical support: Through the EDUCAIDS initiative, UNESCO has been working with UNAIDS Cosponsors and other partners such as IATT on the development of decision support tools to provide practical techni-cal assistance for governments and national stakeholders working in the education sector.
These include policy briefs for high-level discussions, technical and practical manu-als and guidelines for programme managers and teachers to support design, implementa-tion and monitoring of the educaimplementa-tion sector response and mapping guidelines for strate-gic diagnostic review of ongoing activities and programmes.
anisms, South-South exchanges, and by enhancing technical capacities at the national level to ensure governments can rely on locally sourced technical support.
Other notable achievements include the following.
4. Advocacy, expansion of knowledge and enhancement of capacity. UNESCO held training seminars in Africa and Asia on HIV prevention in education for high level min-istry officials; identified and disseminated examples of best practice on AIDS educa-tion; and provided small grants to social sci-entific research on AIDS.
5. Customizing the message and finding the right messenger. In 2004 UNESCO provided training to journalists; supported multi-media centres; developed and adapted curriculum for AIDS education; and announced Red Ribbon Media Awards for journalistic excellence in covering AIDS.
6. Reducing risk and vulnerability. In 2004 UNESCO developed information/education/
communication packages for hard-to-reach populations such as migrant workers and trafficked people.
7. Ensuring rights for the infected and affected.
In 2004 UNESCO collaborated with “3 by 5”
partners on treatment education; collaborated with ILO on workplace policies for teachers;
and provided leadership training for young people.
8. Coping with the institutional impact. In 2004 UNESCO developed models for projecting the impact of AIDS on education systems and worked with educational planners and