In 2005, UNICEF launched Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS, as a global call to action to all those working to protect children from the impact of HIV and AIDS. Drawing attention to the international community’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals and the promises world leaders have made since the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in 2001.
The campaign calls for the next generation to be AIDS-free. An important part of the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS commitment involves advocating for the achievement of MDG 6 - to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS by 2015.
How will this reversal be achieved?
By focusing on the following goals – the Four Ps:
P1 - Prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
By 2010, offer appropriate services to 80 per cent of women in need
P2 - Provide paediatric treatment
By 2010, provide treatment to 80 per cent of children in need
P3 - Prevent infection among adolescents and young people
By 2010, reduce the percentage of young people living with HIV by 25 per cent
P4 - Protect and support children affected by HIV and AIDS
By 2010, reach 80 per cent of children most in need.
Annual Stocktaking Reports monitor progress towards achieving these goals. The reports look at data on progress, emerging evidence, and current knowledge and practice for children as they relate to four programme areas.
Governments and agencies, activists and scientists, corporations and community workers, families, children and young people must join the many who are already working towards an AIDS-free generation, when
Not one more child will die of AIDS,
Not one more child will be infected with HIV, and
Not one more child will lose a parent or a teacher or a friend to a pandemic that must be stopped.