Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection: Recommendations for a Public Health Approach

Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection: Recommendations for a Public Health Approach
These consolidated guidelines provide guidance on the diagnosis of HIV infection, the care of people living with HIV, and the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection. They are structured along the continuum of HIV testing, care and treatment. Behavioural, structural and biomedical interventions that do not involve the use of ARV drugs are not covered in these guidelines. The 2013 consolidation process combines and harmonizes recommendations from a range of WHO guidelines and other documents, including the 2010 guidelines on using antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection in adults and adolescents, in infants and children, and for treating pregnant women living with HIV and preventing HIV infection in infants. Comprehensive guidance is now provided on using ARV drugs across age groups and populations of adults, pregnant and breastfeeding women, adolescents, children and key populations. The guidelines also aim to consolidate and update clinical, service delivery, and programmatic guidance.

Verdict on a Virus: Public Health, Human Rights and Criminal Law

Verdict on a Virus: Public Health, Human Rights and Criminal Law
This document is intended for anyone who wants to know more about the criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure and the related health, human rights, and legal implications. It can help you to become more familiar with the latest laws, legal support, and other services relating to HIV in your country or region. The 10 key questions in this guide provide a snapshot of case studies and opinions from around the world; they ask and answer the key questions about the criminalization of HIV transmission and exposure – what it is and why it is an increasingly important issue now; and what are the human dimensions in terms of health, stigma, human rights, the law, and the experiences of people living with HIV. This guide provides resources and information to:

Support legal advocacy and social mobilization in countries that criminalize HIV transmission or exposure in order to repeal or reform these laws;
Consolidate arguments and document why the criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure is not an effective approach for promoting public health;
Catalyse national and international activism to prevent future laws on criminalization being enacted or applied; and
Support people living with HIV to become more familiar with legal issues and their rights.

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Guide de bonne practique: La participation des personnes vivant avec le VIH

Guide de bonne practique: La participation des personnes vivant avec le VIH
This guide was produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP +) . It is part of a series of good practice guides produced by the Alliance. This series combines the experience of global HIV programming at the community level in order to define and guide good practice in a variety of technical areas. The Good Practice Guide on GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS) contains information , strategies, and resources to support program managers to enable meaningful participation of PLHIV in new and existing programs of HIV.

Getting to Zero: UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015

Getting to Zero: UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Despite widespread commitment to aid effectiveness principles for HIV, true national ownership and downward accountability are still far from assured. Theinterests of the global South, including those of civil society and people living with and affected by HIV, exercise too little influence in the architecture governing the global AIDS response. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has formed a strategy of transition that aims to see fewer people newly infected than are newly placed on treatment. Doing so will require decisive action guided by a groundbreaking vision: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths.

 

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Preventing HIV and Unintended Pregnancies: Strategic Framework 2011 – 2015

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.

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

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.

Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV

Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV
This Guidance Package, developed by people living with HIV, describes the important issues and key areas for change. Going forward, legislators, government ministries, international organizations, donors, and community- and faith-based organizations, with the continued input and guidance of people living with HIV, must work together to put in place the services and legal supports that will build better sexual and reproductive health for everyone.