UNHCR promotes and supports the development of comprehensive HIV programmes to ensure universal access to HIV prevention services and AIDS treatment, care and support programmes. Globally, the agency is a UNAIDS co-sponsor and the lead agency for HIV among refugees and other displaced people. 

In the Central European region the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among refugees and asylum seekers is not particularly high. Hence, asylum seekers and refugees who are at risk of contracting the disease or who are already affected may find it hard to obtain information in languages accessible to them. 

To address the lack of information, UNHCR started a mass information project in Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania in 2009, later extended to other countries. Basic information leaflets were produced that educate asylum-seekers and refugees on how HIV/AIDS can be contracted, on possible prevention measures, pregnancy and HIV/AIDS and included contact addresses where people could have themselves tested and receive the necessary treatment.

The flyers were developed in various languages spoken by the majority of displaced people arriving at the region, e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Georgian, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Swahili and Urdu. National governments helped disseminate the information material country-wide and the leaflets were also placed online for download. 

The HIV/AIDS leaflet are today found in the information dispensers at land border crossings and airports, as an information and awareness-raising component of the Border Management and Refugee Protection project.