The East and Southern African (ESA) Region of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, is host to 18 countries in which the HIV epidemic has been classified by UNAIDS as high burden, severe/hyper-endemic and concentrated endemic with geopolitical relevance. UNFPA is one of 11 co-sponsors of UNAIDS and a contributor to the UNAIDS Joint Programme on HIV, which up until 2011 has been implemented jointly by the co-sponsors of the Joint Programme, based on an agreed Unified Budget and Work plan (UBW).
The purpose of this HIV publication of the East and Southern African Office of UNFPA is to highlight the good and promising practices that were identified during the 2010-2011 UBW reporting cycle.
It is hoped that the good and promising practices showcased in this brochure (as well as those in progress, to be published later on this website) will be an inspiration for improved programme implementation and results-based reporting in the areas that UNFPA programmes in. This will result in HIV prevention that contributes to the improved sexual and reproductive lives of women and young people, in particular.
