UBRAF 2024-2025 Centralized - Preventing and addressing HIV and AIDS and ending inequalities in the world of work

The AIDS epidemic is not over and the global crisis, combined with growing inequalities and global threats such as climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic further threatened to offset the gains made over the last 40 years . In this context, the new Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 — End Inequalities End AIDS —seeks to accelerate progress towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, as committed to in the Sustainable Development Agenda, using an inequalities lens to close the gaps that are impeding progress. As a cosponsoring organization of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the ILO plays a leadership role in (i) scaling up HIV policy and programmes in the world of work; (ii) mobilizing the private sector’s HIV response; (iii) co-convening the global response on HIV-sensitive social protection; (iv) promoting access to HIV testing and life-saving Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) for millions of workers and their families (v) strengthening the non-discriminatory legal and policy framework and (vi) addressing connected intertwined issues impacting HIV response such as violence and harassment and gender inequalities. The project falls under the umbrella of ILO’s transformative agenda for gender equality and non-discrimination. It responds to the evolving landscape of the HIV and AIDS epidemic and is designed to overcome gaps in the AIDS response and support the implementation of ILO’s strategy on HIV and AIDS in the world of work , by strengthening efforts on six strategic priority areas. This project has a global outreach to support constituents particularly in high-burden countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, and in other countries where there are strategic entry points. The project is aligned to the Global AIDS Strategy and aims to address gender inequalities and addresses multiple grounds of discrimination in line with the ILO’s 2024-2025 Programme and Budget (P&B) priorities and outcomes. The project also addresses violence and harassment, based on the guidance of ILO Convention No.190 as the risk of violence multiply for women and girls living with HIV including from their intimate partners, families and communities or when they seek services. Under the same umbrella, separate but related country-specific project documents will cover (i) country-level activities, to be funded by decentralized UNAIDS “Country Envelopes” and (ii) country-level activities, to be funded by PEPFAR, in eastern and southern Africa to implement gender responsive and economic empowerment initiatives targeted at vulnerable adolescent girls and young women.

Project symbol

GLO/24/01/UNA

Admin unit

GEDI

Start date

01/01/2024

End date

31/12/2024

Total allocation

2294562

Total expenditure

Status

Active

2297150

Development Partners

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Country/Countries

Global
United Republic of Tanzania
China
Malawi
Indonesia
South Africa
Mozambique
Uganda
Nigeria
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Cameroon
Kenya
Ukraine
India

Outcomes

Outcome 5: Gender equality and equality of treatment and opportunities for all