Call to Action
This call to action is an appeal to strengthen the global response to HIV/AIDS and improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, by taking systematic action to maximise synergy in response to these intimately linked issues.
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Interact Worldwide calls on governments, international agencies, donors and NGOs to commit publicly to appropriate integration and linkage of HIV/AIDS policies, programmes and services with those of SRH&R in order to reduce poverty, accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, and increase the resource effectiveness of the large global investments dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Interact Worldwide calls on key actors to:
- Increase global commitment and momentum in accelerating progress towards the health MDGs and increasing effective use of resources through appropriately integrated and linked responses to HIV/AIDS and SRH&R, aligned within national frameworks.
- Strengthen the evidence base which demonstrates the benefits of appropriately integrating and linking responses to HIV/AIDS and SRH&R in terms of stigma reduction, access to services, commodities and medicines, health equity, and outcomes amongst poor, marginalised and vulnerable people.
- Use existing mechanisms to maximise synergy and oppose/reduce institutional and financing barriers, especially those rooted in or supported by vertical aid architecture and conditionality.
- Establish a Global Task Force which will review legislation, policy, regulation and practice that prevents appropriate integration and linkage between HIV/AIDS and SRH&R, or which reduces access to HIV/AIDS and SRH&R information, services, commodities and medicines, especially amongst vulnerable groups such as poor women, young people, HIV positive people and marginalised groups such as migrants, sex workers, men who have sex with men and injecting drug users.
- Strengthen capacity for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of appropriately integrated and linked responses to HIV/AIDS and SRH&R which are equitable and accessible.
- Promote partnership and intersectoral collaboration and exchange between actors in HIV/AIDS and SRH&R
