The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on HIV and Young People was created in 2001 to support an accelerated, harmonized and expanded global, regional and country-level response to increase young people's utilization of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services.

Membership includes the UNAIDS Secretariat and UNAIDS co-sponsors (UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, World Bank), along with a growing number of youth networks/associations, donors, civil society, and research institutions.

The task team, which is convened by UNFPA, is one of four that have been created within UNAIDS to foster cooperation among the many agencies and partners responding to the AIDS pandemic in specific technical and sectoral areas. UNFPA's role is to facilitate policy discussions and coordination and to provide programmatic advice and strategic guidance, in addition to acting as the IATT secretariat.

A series of seven Guidance Briefs has been developed by the task team. They aim to help decision makers (including development practitioners, governments donors and civil society organizations) understand what needs to be done, based on the latest global evidence on effective interventions for young people. The Briefs will be published in all six UN languages.

    *      Overview of HIV Interventions for Young People
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/overview.pdf

    *      HIV Interventions for Most-at-risk Young People
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/mostatrisk.pdf

    *      HIV Interventions for Young People in Humanitarian Emergencies
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/humanitarian.pdf

    *      Community-based HIV interventions for Young People
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/unicef.pdf

    *      HIV Interventions for Young People in the Education Sector
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/education.pdf

    *      HIV Interventions for Young People in the Health Sector
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/health.pdf

    *      HIV Interventions for Young People in the Workplace
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/iatt/docs/workplace.pdf


Related Link

    * UNAIDS Task Team develops effective tools to help young people tackle HIV
http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2009/20090603_UNFPA_IATT.asp