WFP and UNAIDS

I wanted to look into the two UN organizations that focus on the two topics on which I am doing some multimedia research. Both include a Millennium Development Goal, including stopping extreme poverty and halting and reversing the spread of HIV by 2015.


World Food Programme

www.wfp.org/english

The WFP website says that hunger is "the number one risk to global health," and that they helped 87.8 million people in 78 countries in 2006. Their main goals are to help meet emergency food needs and to support social and economic development.
Recent work includes food aid to victims of the cyclone in Myanmar and that President Bush asked Congress to give $770 million to help alleviate the pressure of the increasing food prices around the world.

UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

http://www.unaids.org/en/

"UNAIDS helps mount and support an expanded response to AIDS – one that engages the efforts of many sectors and partners from government and civil society."

The work of UNAIDS includes cultural, health, social and economic issues related to HIV. Programs vary and include programs not limiting to HIV prevention, counseling and testing, humanitarian response to HIV in emergency settings, the concurrence of HIV and TB, gender and reproductive health. Programs are all over the world, but primarily centered in Africa because it is the site of the largest epidemic.