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VISION
ZERO NEW HIV INFECTIONS.
ZERO DISCRIMINATION.
ZERO AIDS-RELATED DEATHS.
Why is HIV a public
health issue?
Why is HIV a
political issue?
Why is HIV a social
justice and human
rights issue?
Why is HIV a
theological issue?
HIV as a public health issue
In 20 years (1981-2000) the numbers of
people living with HIV rocketed to 27.5
million
History of a new and different
disease:
People living with HIV responded with urgency advocacy and activism
Global summary of the AIDS epidemic 
2010
Number of people
living with HIV
People newly
infected
with HIV in 2010
AIDS deaths in 2010
Total
Adults
Women
Children (<15 years)
34.0 million [31.6 million–35.2
million]
30.1 million [28.4 million–31.5
million]
16.8 million [15.8 million–17.6
million]
Total 3.4 million [3.0 million–3.8 million]
Adults 2.7 million [2.4 million–2.9 million]
Children (<15 years) 2.3 million [2.1 million–2.5 million]
390 000 [340 000–450 000]
Total 1.8 million [1.6 million–1.9 million]
Adults 1.5 million [1.4 million–1.6 million]
Children (<15 years) 250 000 [220 000–290 000]
HIV as a political issue?
• A highly complex public health issue
• Risks to public health, national economies and
security when prevalence is high
• Social inequities and restricted human rights
decrease individual choices around HIV
prevention
• To mount an effective public health response to a
complex epidemic strong political leadership is
needed
• Costs of an effective response are significant and
require strong political commitment ($22 billion
per year by 2015)
Bold new targets for 2015
50%  in sexual transmission of HIV
50%  of HIV among people who inject drugs
50%  TB deaths in people living with HIV
Ensure no children are born with HIV and reduction of
AIDS-related maternal deaths
 15 million on antiretroviral treatment
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The Way Forward
The UNAIDS strategy sets out the way
ahead in three Strategic Directions
1. Revolutionize HIV prevention:
2. Catalyse the next phase of treatment,
care and support.
3. Advance human rights and gender
equality for the HIV response
HIV and AIDS as a justice issue
“AIDS is a justice issue, not
primarily a sex issue. …
Perhaps an even more basic
issue than economic and
gender relations in the countries
most affected by AIDS is the
justice of the interlocking local
and global economic systems
that disrupt traditional societies,
displace economic and
educational infrastructures, and
cut off access to kinds of
prevention and treatment of
disease whose efficacy in
Europe and North America is
well established “ Sowle-Cahill
Justice and Human Rights are
linked
• Inequity becomes injustice when people are
denied their inherent right to “human dignity and
the full range of rights accorded by the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights”
• AIDS exacerbates inequity and injustice: in turn,
inequity and injustice increase vulnerability to
HIV infection. One cannot be understood without
understanding the other
Human Rights and Human Dignity
“How societies treat [HIV] and
[people living with HIV] will not only
test fundamental values but will
likely make the difference between
success and failure of AIDS
strategies at national level. To the
extent that we exclude [people with
HIV] from society, we endanger
society, to the extent that we
maintain [them] in society, we
protect society. This is the message
of realism and of tolerance.”
Jonathan Mann, Statement at an informal briefing on AIDS of
the 42nd Session of the UN General Assembly, 1987.
Stigma and Discrimination
Gender Inequity
• The epidemic
disproportionately
affects women and
young girls
HIV and AIDS as a religious and
theological issue
Roles of the faith
community in the HIV
response have been
in:
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pastoral care and the
faith community as a
healing community,
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theology and ethics,
and
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justice and human
rights
Partnerships with faith based
organizations: UNAIDS Strategic
Framework
Priority areas for UNAIDS partnership with faith-based
organizations
Three levels
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Religious leaders
Faith inspired NGOsFBOs
Local Faith Communities
For each level on each issueTwo- to- four outputs
Prioritized strategic approaches
to UN/FBO partnership action on
each issue
UNAIDS
November 7, 2015
Ten issues
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Prevention
Treatment
Care and support
Youth
Children and orphans
People living with HIV
Gender
Key populations
Stigma and discrimination
Human Rights, dignity and justice
AIDS as a challenge to the faith
community
• Issues which generate stigma and
discrimination in society can also pose a
challenge to the theology and teachings of
faith communities.
• AIDS presents challenges to resources,
both human and financial.
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