HIV Leadership through Accountability programme

The HIV Leadership through Accountability programme is about evidence-based campaigning, advocacy and lobbying. Research captures, records and publishes national data, in order to inform and strengthen national, regional and international efforts. The work is being implemented with a bottom-up approach, informed by community responses, and strengthened by South-South collaboration.

Examples of best practice and lessons learned are disseminated via a diverse range of communications tools, new publications as well as websites and listservs coordinated by national networks of people living with HIV (PLHIV), the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the World AIDS Campaign (WAC).

The programme enables national networks of people living with HIV to build a solid evidence-base about why it is crucial to achieve universal access and how this can happen in practice through the meaningful participation of people living with HIV.

The information gathered will inform national-level priorities and the delivery of HIV programmes with a focus on key issues. It will assist governments to deliver coordinated and effective responses to HIV and AIDS. More importantly, it also highlights and builds the unique role of civil society, including national networks of people living with HIV, in working with governments to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate programmes that contribute to realising targets for expanding access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support without discrimination.