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Community-led responses

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Community-led responses

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Overview

The Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026 recognizes that communities living with and affected by HIV are central to ending AIDS by 2030. The Strategy calls for commitments to the expanded role of communities to ensure more effective responses, especially for people in need of HIV prevention and treatment services who are the most underserved. Community-led AIDS responses are vital for addressing stigma and discrimination; providing treatment education and adherence support and prevention interventions; supporting differentiated service delivery; and reaching all people who need those services.

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Building on the first definition of a community-led HIV response, developed by a multistakeholder task team, the Joint Programme continued to actively promote, guide and support the expansion of community-led HIV responses in 2022-2023. It developed draft guidance on community-led HIV responses in consultation with global networks of people living with HIV, women and key populations. It also provided technical support to community-led organizations in 74 countries and to 83 countries to incorporate and expand community-led HIV responses. Though still limited, community-led monitoring is occurring in 75 countries with Joint Programme support.

Advocacy for and analysis intensified to leverage resources for community-led responses, including through costing and resource tracking. Aiming to enhance more sustainable community-led responses, a model to assess the social returns on investment in social contracting is supporting efforts in eight countries to develop social contracting guidelines.

The UNAIDS World AIDS Day 2023 report, “Let communities lead”, highlighted the unique and invaluable role of community-led responses, documented experiences from across the world, outlined barriers to community leadership and called for a comprehensive action agenda to put communities at the centre of efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat.

Joint Programme welcomed and supported the engagement of community partners in the development of broader HIV-related normative guidance such as for the elimination of vertical transmission and guidelines for HIV interventions for key populations.

In all aspects of its work, the Joint Programme supported the leadership and empowerment of multiple networks of people living with HIV, women and key populations at country, regional and global levels. This included  organizing and/or promoting inclusive policy dialogues and diverse capacity building initiatives to improve HIV and broader sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services; advance human rights, including through the removal of discriminatory laws and policies; and increase gender equality, including for LGBTQI+ persons. 

Joint Programme Specific Outputs
4.1 Develop and promote normative guidance and support advocacy strategies for community-led responses (network strengthening, legal literacy, advocacy, monitoring and service delivery), including those led by people living with HIV, key populations, women and youth
4.2 Provide technical and policy support to countries to develop and expand partnerships between governments and community-led organizations and provide support for greater engagement of networks in decision-making for community led responses for HIV, including on funding.

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RA04-2022-2023
Nov 2024
2022-2023 Report: Result Area 4 Community-led responses
PCB 54_ 2022-2023 PMR Executive Summary
Jun 2024
2022–2023 PMR Executive Summary
2022-2023 PMR Results Report
Jun 2024
2022-2023 PMR Results Report
2022 RA 04_EN_0.pdf
Jul 2023
2022 Report: Result Area 4 Community-led responses
2022 PMR Executive Summary
Jun 2023
2022 PMR Executive Summary
2022 PMR Results Report
Jun 2023
2022 PMR Results Report
Community-Response_2024
Nov 2024
Community-led Response (2022-2023)
Infographic Community Response - 2020-21 PMR
Oct 2022
Community-led Response (2020-2021)

Other Resources

Community responses to HIV | UNAIDS
Community-led monitoring in action: Emerging evidence and good practice | UNAIDS
Ahead of World AIDS Day UNAIDS is calling for urgent support to Let Communities Lead in the fight to end AIDS | UNAIDS
Community pandemic response | UNAIDS
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