GENEVA, 9 October 2020—UNAIDS sends its heartfelt congratulations to the World Food Programme (WFP) for being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. WFP’s efforts to ensure food security for all, particularly the most vulnerable women, men and children, including people living with HIV, have saved countless lives and prevented hunger and starvation in countries all around the world.
“We are so proud of WFP’s achievement and are honoured to have WFP as one of our Cosponsors, working with us to end AIDS,” said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS. “We will continue to work closely together to achieve our shared goals of zero hunger, zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero discrimination for all.”
For people living with HIV, food and nutrition are critical components of care and support. WFP’s work on HIV includes nutritional recovery for malnourished people living with HIV, support at the individual and household levels, supplying food, cash and vouchers, and linking food and health systems. As part of its HIV and tuberculosis programmes in 29 countries, WFP also links clients with social protection programmes and livelihood strengthening activities in order to ensure that health gains can be sustained in the long term, as people living with HIV need to stay on treatment for life.
WFP’s efforts have improved the lives of people living with and affected by HIV and have advanced access and adherence to HIV treatment. UNAIDS thanks WFP for its work and collaboration and congratulates WFP on its well-merited achievement of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Additional information on WFP’s work on HIV is available here.
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. UNAIDS unites the efforts of 11 UN organizations—UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank—and works closely with global and national partners towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more at unaids.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
