What is the IATT/YP?
The UNAIDS Inter-agency task team on HIV/AIDS and young people was established in December 2001 to address the growing threat of HIV to young people around the world, and to contribute to a UN system accelerated and expanded response towards achieving the ICPD+5 and UNGASS goals relating to young people. The main purpose of the task team is to undertake interventions that are catalytic in enhancing programme approaches on HIV prevention among young people at the operational/country level. UNFPA is the convening agency for the IATT/YP.
The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on HIV and Young People enables 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.
Terms of Reference
The TOR spells out the task team's specific objectives, roles and responsibilities, selection criteria and fuctional mechanisms.
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Structure
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Working Groups
There are four working groups that focus on specific areas and activities of the IATT on HIV and young people, to promote targeted, year-round response and follow-up. They are the:
- Advocacy and resource mobilization working group. (Download: TOR | workplan)
- Programmatic and technical working group. (Download: TOR | workplan)
- Strategic information working group. (Download: TOR | workplan)
- Most-at-risk young people working group. (Download: TOR | workplan)
