Preventing HIV and Unintended Pregnancies: Strategic Framework 2011 – 2015

This strategic framework supports the ‘Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive’. It offers guidance for preventing HIV infections and unintended pregnancies – both essential strategies for improving maternal and child health, and eliminating new paediatric HIV infections. The framework should be used in conjunction with other related guidance that together address all four prongs of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This document focuses on strengthening rights-based polices and programming within health services and the community.

GIYPA Guidebook: Supporting Organisations and Networks to Scale Up the Meaningful Involvement of Young People Living with HIV

GNP+ published this document with the aim of encouraging more meaningful involvement of young people living with HIV within the HIV response. Supported by funding from the HIV Young Leaders Fund, GNP+ conducted research among 350 young people living with HIV, and among more than 175 youth-led organisations and networks living with HIV, to identify the key barriers faced by YPLHIV to engaging more meaningfully in the HIV response. The findings from this research led to the development of this tool. Each chapter in this guidebook outlines one of the five steps to scaling up and sustaining the involvement of YPLHIV in organisations:

Understanding what is meant by ‘meaningful involvement’
Finding good reasons to involve youth living with HIV
Linking youth and organisations together
Sustaining and growing youth involvement
Seeing positive health, dignity, and prevention in action

The guidebook provides practical information, tips and tools that can be used by experienced practitioners as well as those who are new to this area to strengthen their capacity to facilitate the meaningful involvement and leadership of YPLHIV.

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Advancing HIV Justice: A progress report of achievements and challenges in global advocacy against HIV criminalisation

Many laws criminalising HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission were put in place due to ignorance about how HIV is transmitted and what sort of harm it causes. Fear of HIV and discrimination against people living with HIV are almost palpable in many of these laws and in the sentences that result from prosecution. This document scans the current situation, the good developments and the bad; details the many initiatives by independent experts, governments, the United Nations and civil society; describes the latest research and its findings in terms of prosecutions and convictions and the social impact of these on the HIV response and people’s behaviour. Most importantly, it powerfully demonstrates that civil society advocacy on this issue is not only alive – it goes from strength to strength.

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People Living with HIV Global Advocacy Agenda 2013-2015

Published in 2012, this call to action was developed by a group of people living with HIV who are engaged in global advocacy work and who partcipated in a meeting in November 2012 in Marrakech, Morocco to explore how the Global Advocacy Agenda could be used to support and strengthen existing advocacy efforts. The Global Advocacy Agenda is a tool to articulate the advocacy isseus of most significance to the community of people living with HIV, based on broad consultation.

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SAT Information Workshop on the Global Fund New Funding Model and Community Systems Strengthening

The SAT information workshop on the Global Fund New Funding Model and Community systems strenghtening was held in late Feb/early March 2014 at Crossroads Hotel, Lilongwe, and had the following major objectives:

To review and analyze the national disease strategies and identify gaps in information or evidence.
Review lessons learned from programming supported by or focusing on priorities of civil society and key populations.
Take stock of evidence available to justify programming focusing on KPs and other priority programming areas.
Review and analyze the changes relevant to CS in the new funding model and changes to CSS and clarify roles of the civil society in the NFM.
Identify appropriate partnerships and collaborations to manage ongoing work in the development of a robust and relevant funding proposal.
Develop an effective advocacy strategy for civil society constituents in the CCM and Global Fund board constituencies.
Improve understanding of the Investment Framework and how marginalized groups (including KPs) can act as critical enablers.

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