Mainstreaming the policy and programming response to the HIV epidemic

This paper describes UNDP's HIV and Development programme's experiences with mainstreaming HIV. It calls for a more complex understanding of the epidemic; a capacity for improved design of programmes and projects through new processes which are socially inclusive; and new and different and more participatory systems for implementing programme responses. It presents lessons learned from UNDP's work on mainstreaming HIV, as well as recommendations for future work in this area