Social protection: a fast-track commitment to end AIDS
Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV
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Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV. How to bring to scale what works in the context of different HIV epidemics and for different populations. The UNAIDS Fast-Track approach seeks to frontload investments and reduce new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths to fewer than 500 000 globally, and to achieve the 90–90–90 testing, treatment and viral suppression targets and the zero AIDS-related discrimination targets by 2020. Attaining these targets would put the world on course to ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
To Fast-Track social protection to help end the AIDS epidemic, it is imperative that countries conduct assessments of their social protection responses, including their HIV sensitivity. This would help deepen and extend the coverage of social protection programmes to people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV. The assessments would also assist countries to generate strategic information to help understand how to sustainably finance social protection programmes. Relevant costs for increasing the HIV sensitivity of social protection programmes would be obtained from the assessments. Altogether, this information would inform effective planning and implementation of HIV and social protection programmes.
