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Collaboration with traditional healers in HIV/AIDS prevention - unaids

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The Jo<strong>in</strong>t United Nations Programme on <strong>HIV</strong>/<strong>AIDS</strong> (UN<strong>AIDS</strong>) is the lead<strong>in</strong>g advocate for global action<br />

on <strong>HIV</strong>/<strong>AIDS</strong>. It br<strong>in</strong>gs together seven UN agencies <strong>in</strong> a common effort to fight the epidemic: the United<br />

Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United<br />

Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP),<br />

the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health<br />

Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.<br />

UN<strong>AIDS</strong> both mobilizes the responses to the epidemic of its seven cosponsor<strong>in</strong>g organizations and<br />

supplements these efforts <strong>with</strong> special <strong>in</strong>itiatives. Its purpose is to lead and assist an expansion of the<br />

<strong>in</strong>ternational response to <strong>HIV</strong> on all fronts: medical, public health, social, economic, cultural, political<br />

and human rights. UN<strong>AIDS</strong> works <strong>with</strong> a broad range of partners – governmental and NGO, bus<strong>in</strong>ess,<br />

scientific and lay – to share knowledge, skills and best practice across boundaries.<br />

Produced <strong>with</strong> environment friendly materials

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