Children and AIDS: a stocktaking report

Actions and progress during the first year of Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS

Published by: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), January 2007
Via: Docuticker

A global campaign to put children at the heart of the fight against AIDS is gathering momentum but much, much more needs to be done, according to a stocktaking report on the initiative’s first year. The campaign, UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS, was launched by UNICEF, UNAIDS and many other partners at the United Nations in New York on 25 October 2005, aiming to highlight the missing face of children in the world’s response to the AIDS pandemic. A report released today on year one of the five-year campaign finds that some countries have achieved breakthroughs in preventing HIV transmission from mothers to their children and in providing treatment for children living with HIV