document types: Program guidance

Tool to Set and Monitor Targets for HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations (2015 supplement)

Tool to Set and Monitor Targets for HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations (2015 supplement)
This tool supplements the World Health Organization Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations; it provides technical guidance to assist countries in planning and monitoring efforts to address HIV among key populations: men who have sex with men, people in prisons and other closed settings, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people. More specifically, this document provides guidance on monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the comprehensive package of interventions to address HIV among key populations.
Year of publication: 
2015
Media: 
Download WHO-tool-to-set-and-monitor-targets-for-HIV-prevention-diagnosis-treatment-and-care-for-key-populations.pdf (1.19 MB)

HIV and Young Transgender People: Technical Brief

HIV and Young Transgender People: Technical Brief
This brief, one of four in a series, aims to catalyse and inform discussions about how best to provide health services, programmes, and support for young transgender people. It offers a concise account of current knowledge concerning the HIV risk and vulnerability of young transgender people; the barriers and constraints they face to appropriate services; examples of programmes that may work well in addressing their needs and rights; and approaches and considerations for providing services that both draw upon and build the strengths, competencies and capacities of young transgender people.
Year of publication: 
2015
Media: 
Download WHO-HIV-and-young-transgender-people.pdf (1.79 MB)

HIV and Young People Who Sell Sex: Technical Brief

HIV and Young People Who Sell Sex: Technical Brief
This technical brief is one in a series addressing four young key populations. It is intended for policy-makers, donors, service-planners, service-providers and community- led organizations. This brief aims to catalyse and inform discussions about how best to provide services, programmes and support for young people who sell sex. It offers a concise account of current knowledge concerning the HIV risk and vulnerability of young people who sell sex; the barriers and constraints they face to appropriate services; examples of programmes that may work well in addressing their needs and rights; and approaches and considerations for providing services that both draw upon and build the strengths, competencies and capacities of young people who sell sex.
Year of publication: 
2015
Media: 
Download WHO-HIV-and-young-people-who-sell-sex.pdf (2.18 MB)

HIV and Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: Technical Brief

HIV and Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: Technical Brief
This technical brief is one in a series addressing four young key populations. It is intended for policy-makers, donors, service-planners, service-providers and community-led organizations. The brief aims to catalyse and inform discussions about how best to provide health services, programmes and support for young MSM. It offers a concise account of current knowledge concerning the HIV risk and vulnerability of young MSM; the barriers and constraints they face to appropriate services; examples of programmes that may work well in addressing their needs and rights; and approaches and considerations for providing services that both draw upon and build to the strengths, competencies and capacities of young MSM.
Year of publication: 
2015
Media: 
Download WHO-HIV-and-young-men-who-have-sex-with-men.pdf (1.83 MB)

HIV and Young People Who Inject Drugs: Technical Brief

HIV and Young People Who Inject Drugs
This brief aims to catalyse and inform discussions about how best to provide health services, programmes and support for young people who inject drugs. It offers a concise account of current knowledge concerning the HIV risk and vulnerability of young people who inject drugs; the barriers and constraints they face to appropriate services; examples of programmes that may work well in addressing their needs and rights; and approaches and considerations for providing services that both draw upon and build the strengths, competencies and capacities of young people who inject drugs.
Year of publication: 
2015
Media: 
Download WHO-HIV-and-young-people-who-inject-drugs.pdf (1.92 MB)

Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: North America and the Caribbean Regional Report

Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: North America and the Caribbean Regional Report
This document summarises the experience of sex workers through examples of best practices that serve to share the development of politically influential tools; to strengthen sex workers’ group efforts to become effectively involved in the development of policies and programmes that help to amplify their voices both at regional and international levels. It also documents the access of sex workers to treatment, as well as the impact of HIV programmes which fail to include a human rights-based approach, such as highly coercive or mandatory HIV programmes, as well as the lack of access to affordable and effective treatment for HIV and STIs.
Year of publication: 
2014
Media: 
Download north-america-caribbean-regional-report-good-practice-in-sex-worker-led-HIV-programming.pdf (2.37 MB)