March 26, 2009
A new working group report from CGD and the Global Economic Governance Program of Oxford University recommends that the new executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) focus on a few essential tasks: promoting evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies, ensuring that UN agencies adequately support governments and civil society in countries severely affected by HIV, and pressing rich-country governments to live up to their pledges to help poor countries respond to the epidemic.