Standard Operating Procedures for Implementing HIV Programmes among Key Populations: Ghana

Standard Operating Procedures for Implementing HIV Programmes among Key Populations: Ghana
There is need for sustained HIV prevention, care, and treatment, especially among key populations (KP) who comprise as much as 40 percent or more of new HIV infections. As activities are scaled up and more stakeholders and actors are involved in the provision of KP interventions, there is the need to ensure that a standardised set of services is provided to all KPs in a non-stigmatising and confidential manner. These Standard Operating Procedures have been developed as one of the essential and fundamental activities outlined in the National MARP Strategic Plan 2011-2015. They are designed to systematise the strategies employed under the NSP 2011–2015 and its M&E Plan.
Year of publication: 
2014

South-to-South Mentoring Toolkit for Key Populations

South-to-South Mentoring Toolkit for Key Populations
S2S mentoring implies that all organizations involved, mentor and mentee(s), are rooted in the global South and have direct experience operating in complex low- and middle-income countries. Mentoring can be provided more regularly and more efficiently by organizations in the same or neighboring countries and is often more readily accepted when the mentor’s messages, approaches, experiences, and lessons learned come out of a similar setting.
Year of publication: 
2016

LINKAGES HIV Cascade Framework for Key Populations

LINKAGES HIV Cascade Framework for KPs
The purpose of this document is to assist those responsible for the continuum of HIV services to construct, analyze, and use the HIV cascade framework to improve HIV services by KPs and retention in those services. Intended audiences include ministries of health and other government agencies, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, HIV program managers, and researchers.
Year of publication: 
2015

The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to The Global Fund

The Smart Sex Worker's Guide to The Global Fund
The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to The Global Fund is aimed at sex workers as a quick reference guide to help sex workers understand the Global Fund and its complex structures. The guide is helpful to sex worker organisations who are already receiving funding from the Global Fund as well as to those who hope to receive funding from the Fund in the future. It briefly describes the key structures at global and country levels and outlines their function. The guide also suggests how to interact with these various structures. In addition to this, the smart guide also looks at various Global Fund strategies and policies and their impact, risks and opportunities for key populations. This guide is supported by The Global Fund through the Robert Carr civil society Networks Fund.
Year of publication: 
2015

The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT

The Smart Sex Worker's Guide to SWIT
The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT provides a short summary of the key points in ‘Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions’ or the ‘SWIT’, in plain English. The guide can be used by sex workers and sex worker organisations that are designing or running programmes for sex workers. It may also be useful as an advocacy tool when advocating for rights-based services.
Year of publication: 
2015

ITPC’s Advocacy for Community Treatment (ACT) Toolkit

ITPC's Advocacy for Community Treatment (ACT) Toolkit
The Advocacy for Community Treatment (ACT) Toolkit facilitates community activists to become effective advocates for HIV treatment access. It includes a special focus on supporting key populations and ensuring everyone’s right to health is respected. Topics covered in the participatory Toolkit include: the science of HIV, the relationship between human rights and treatment, how trade impacts the availability of medicines, financing for health, and community advocacy planning.

The ACT Toolkit is now available in French, Russian, and Spanish.

Year of publication: 
2014

Webcast on Violence against Women Who Are Sex Workers and the Mechanisms to Address It

This webcast has been developed by India Learning Network-Bridge Project for the purpose of education alone as part of its e-learning program.The film will help you acquire better understanding of the violence and harassment women who are sex workers face and the mechanisms that can be put in place in the country response, to address it. We thank the team from Capacity Building at Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, India for support.
Year of publication: 
2013