UNAIDS: The First 10 Years

UNAIDS The First 10 Years254of stakeholders. I think UNAIDS has been particularly successful in reaching out to thenongovernmental organization community, to the local communities, to the businesscommunity, and I find it has been very agile in doing that”.Ambassador Randall Tobias, former United States Global AIDS Coordinator and formerDirector of United States Foreign Assistance and Administrator of the United StatesAgency for International Development (USAID), commented: “I think UNAIDS has playeda very important role in bringing others to the table and doing so in a way that is notpolitical and makes every effort to keep people focused on the fact that the enemy isintolerance and indifference and lack of resources and those kinds of things; the enemyis not each other”.Religious and faithbasedorganizationshave been closelyinvolved in the AIDSresponse since the earlydays of the epidemic.UNAIDS/O.O’Hanlon