Good Practice Guide: Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV

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.

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Guía de Buenas Prácticas: Mayor Participación de las Personas que Viven con el VIH

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Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention: Operational Guidelines

Developed by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention represents a fundamental shift in the way in which people living with HIV are involved in the HIV response:

It calls for leadership by people living with HIV, including those from key populations
It transforms the concept of access to services, from a simple biomedical model to a holistic approach to meeting the needs of people living with HIV and their families in their communities
It puts the person living with HIV in the centre, and calls for a comprehensive set of actions – at policy and service delivery levels – that take into consideration the individual’s lived environment; and
It recognises the importance of meeting not only the person’s clinical needs but also their health needs and to protect their human rights.

The Opeational Guidelines were developed for and by people living with HIV based on numerous consultations at the global, regional, and national levels. It articulates the next stage in the HIV response, where people living with HIV are at the centre and services offered in an environment that is supportive to meet all the needs of people living with HIV and their families. Instead of being regarded by “positive prevention” programmes as mere recipients of care and vessels of a virus that needs to be contained, people living with HIV embrace a new paradigm where they are actively involved as part of the solution to the epidemic and not seen as part of the problem.

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HIV Discordant Couples: An Exploratory Study Insights from South Africa, Tanzania and the Ukraine

This document summarizes the findings of an exploratory study on coping strategies and life choices of couples in South Africa, Tanzania, and the Ukraine living in long-term serodiscordant relationships (i.e., couples in which one partner is HIV-positive and the other partner HIV-negative) undertaken by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), and funded by World Health Organization (WHO). GNP+ worked collaboratively with South African researchers at the Centre for Health Policy at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to gather information on serodiscordant couples, with the aim of learning more about the strategies and choices used by serodiscordant couples to sustain their relationships, make sexual and reproductive choices, maintain their health, and avoid HIV transmission.

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The Global Fund’s New Funding Model: Early Outcomes for Regional Civil Society Applicants

This report provides an assessment of the challenges and opportunities encountered by Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) during the process of preparing, negotiating, and beginning to implement a regional civil society application under the new funding model (NFM) as an early applicant. In order to ensure the NFM catalyzes regional applications from civil society, particularly those applications focused on civil society-led advocacy and mobilization for policy change, this report also provides recommendations to the Global Fund and relevant partners based on these experiences. In particular, this report explores the role, involvement, and participation of civil society and key affected populations at each step in the process.

The report, prepared between December 2013 and January 2014, is the result of a review of EHRN’s efforts at each step in the NFM early application process (up to January 2014), including the regional dialogue process, concept note development, selection of grant Sub Recipients (SRs), grant negotiation with the Global Fund Secretariat, and grant-making. The author completed a desk review of relevant documents provided by EHRN, the Global Fund Secretariat, and other stakeholders and conducted interviews with a range of participants who had engaged in different steps in the process, including EHRN staff, UN partner organizations, donor organizations, national and international civil society organizations, networks of people who use drugs, networks of people living with the diseases, consultants involved in the concept note drafting
process, and Global Fund Secretariat staff.

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Harm Reduction for People Who Use Drugs

Preventing HIV and other harms among people who inject drugs – and providing them with effective, appropriate, and voluntary treatment where needed or wanted – are essential components of national HIV responses, yet often present major challenges. People who inject drugs in low- and middle-income countries have limited and inequitable access to HIV prevention and treatment services. In prisons and pre-trial detention settings, access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care is even more limited despite evidence that drug use and sexual activity are prevalent in these settings.

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Prise en compte du commerce du sexe, des hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes et des personnes transgenres dans le contexte de l’épidémie de vih

Il est indispensable de cibler correctement l’investissement en faveur de la lutte contre le VIH pour y apporter une réponse efficace. Cibler les bonnes populations et les bonnes interventions à la bonne échelle n’est pas chose aisée. Les stratégies et programmes nationaux ont souvent omis de prendre en compte les populations marginalisées, comme les professionnels du sexe, les hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes, les personnes transgenres et les consommateurs de drogues, empêchant ainsi les pays d’endiguer les épidémies qui les frappent. Par ailleurs, certains environnements juridiques et politiques influencent la trajectoire de l’épidémie dans les pays et vont même jusqu’à représenter une violation des droits de l’homme en criminalisant les comportements de ces populations-clés et/ou en créant des barrières empêchant l’accès aux services capables de réduire la vulnérabilité au VIH.

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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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