USAID responds to HIV/AIDS : a strategy for the future

Agency for International Development (USAID) has been the global leader in addressing the international HIV/AIDS pandemic over the past 10 years. USAID will pursue the following strategies to achieve its goals of increasing the use of improved, effective, and sustainable responses to check the spread of HIV infection, and mitigating the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: (1) strategies to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV; (2) the management and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs); (3) the elimination of barriers to providing HIV/AIDS services to youth, women, people with HIV and AIDS, and other vulnerable populations; (4) increasing the capacity of nongovernmental, community-based, and private sector organizations to respond to HIV/AIDS; (5) increasing the quality, availability, and use of evaluative and surveillance information; and (6) developing and promoting effective strategies for providing basic care and support services for people with HIV and AIDS. Gender, sustainability, community ownership, contextual change, youth, and local capacity are cross-cutting issues. USAID"s portfolio of HIV/AIDS programs is presented, followed by annexes on the HIV/AIDS Division staff, a selected bibliography of USAID publications on HIV/AIDS, and abbreviations used in the report. (POPLINE abstract, modified)