Readiness Assessment: Moving Towards a Country-led and Financed HIV Response for Key Populations

Readiness Assessment: Moving Towards a Country-led and Financed HIV Response for Key Populations
This guide is designed to assess the ability of a country’s stakeholders (including government, development partners, and civil society) to lead and sustain HIV epidemic control among KPs as donors transition to different levels and types of funding. The guide is a flexible tool that assesses readiness across four domains and focuses on the specific vulnerabilities of KPs. It is not an exhaustive list, and users may identify additional areas of technical assistance based on their assessment.
Year of publication: 
2016

TRANSIT: Implementing Comprehensive HIV and STI Programmes with Transgender People

TRANSIT: Implementing Comprehensive HIV and STI Programmes with Transgender People
This tool contains practical advice on implementing HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) programmes with transgender people. It is based on recommendations in the Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations, published in 2014 by the World Health Organization. Topics covered include community empowerment and human rights, addressing violence, stigma and discrimination, and delivering trans-competent services, especially for HIV and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care. The tool also covers community-led outreach, safe spaces, and the use of information and communications technology in programming, and it offers strategies for managing programmes and building the capacity of trans-led organizations. It contains examples of good practices from around the world that can be used to support efforts to plan programmes and services with trans people.
Year of publication: 
2016

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for People Who Inject Drugs: Community Voices on Pros, Cons, and Concerns

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for People Who Inject Drugs: Community Voices on Pros, Cons, and Concerns
With this paper, INPUD aims to amplify the voices of people who inject drugs so that their unique knowledge and perspectives can be taken into account as policies related to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are formulated. This is of vital importance, as many people who use drugs have grave concerns about the ethics, effectiveness, and safety of prioritising broad promotion of PrEP for people who inject drugs—especially in a global context of drug prohibition and limited access to harm reduction services and antiretroviral therapy for people who inject drugs living with HIV.
Year of publication: 
2016

LINKAGES Key Population Program Implementation Guide

LINKAGES Key Populations Program Implementation Guide
The LINKAGES project (Linkages Across the Continuum of HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV), supported by the US President’s Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), aims to accelerate the ability of partner governments, key population-led civil-society organizations, and private-sector providers to plan, deliver, and optimize comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at scale that reduce HIV transmission among key populations and extend life for those who are HIV positive. LINKAGES has established a global Program Acceleration Initiative that will use its existing partnerships to accelerate and strengthen the delivery of the comprehensive package of services at scale. This implementation guide is part of the initiative. It sets out the steps that programs can take to deliver services to key populations effectively and quickly.

The guide is also available in French and Portuguese.

Year of publication: 
2016

Gender & Sexual Diversity Training: A Facilitator’s Guide for Public Health and HIV Programs (Slide Deck)

Gender & Sexual Diversity Training: A Facilitator's Guide for Public Health and HIV Programs (Slide Deck)
This slide deck to the Gender & Sexual Diversity Training curriculum was developed specifically for PEPFAR staff and their country-level implementing partners to help country programs understand and address the needs of gender and sexual minority communities in the context of HIV programming, U.S. workplace policy on non-discrimination, and through a human rights lens. The guide was developed by the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded Health Policy Project, in coordination with a U.S. Government inter-agency team made up of members of the PEPFAR Key Populations Working Group and the PEPFAR Gender Technical Working Group.
Year of publication: 
2015

Gender & Sexual Diversity Training: A Facilitator’s Guide for Public Health and HIV Programs

Gender & Sexual Diversity Training: A Facilitator's Guide for Public Health and HIV Programs
This version of the Gender & Sexual Diversity Training curriculum was developed specifically for PEPFAR staff and their country-level implementing partners to help country programs understand and address the needs of gender and sexual minority communities in the context of HIV programming, U.S. workplace policy on non-discrimination, and through a human rights lens. The guide was developed by the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded Health Policy Project, in coordination with a U.S. Government inter-agency team made up of members of the PEPFAR Key Populations Working Group and the PEPFAR Gender Technical Working Group.

A slide deck that accompanies this resource. 

Year of publication: 
2015

Standard Operating Procedures for HIV/STI Prevention Programs with Sex Workers in Zambia

Standard Operating Procedures for HIV/STI Prevention Programs with Sex Workers in Zambia
The Standard Operating Procedures in this document provide guidance on project management as well as behavioral, biomedical, and structural interventions necessary to provide quality services that would improve lives of female sex workers in Zambia, and provides the reader with the context for developing the strategy/activity as well as the structure, individual responsibilities, and monitoring plan.
Year of publication: 
2015

National Standards for Peer Education and Outreach for HIV Prevention and Care among Key Populations: Mozambique

National Standards for Peer Education and Outreach for HIV Prevention and Care among Key Populations: Mozambique
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) and minimum standards will support the design and implementation of quality HIV interventions in Mozambique. The SOPs and minimum standards will standardize and quantify the intervention package and define the services and ensure uniformity of terms, definitions and systems.
Year of publication: 
2015