library themes: Research and reports

Transgender Women and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know

Transgender Women and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
The National Center for Innovation in HIV Care published this issue brief on transgender women and PrEP, which examines the inclusion of transgender women in PrEP research and reviews the recent Lancet article about data from the iPrEx and OLE studies. It also addresses concerns related to feminizing hormones and PrEP efficacy.
Year of publication: 
2015
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Download PrEP-and-transgender-women-NCIHC-brief.pdf (2.77 MB)

What Communities Need to Know About the WHO ARV Guidelines (World AIDS Day 2015 Communiqué)

What Communities Need to Know About the WHO ARV Guidelines (World AIDS Day 2015 Communiqué)
The 2015 guidelines published by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS make a strong case for public health systems to form strategic linkages with community-based health services. This represents a critical opportunity for community-based role players and service providers to collaborate within their communities and beyond to establish community-based comprehensive and resilient systems for health.
Year of publication: 
2015
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Download who-unaids-worlds-aids-day-communique-ARV-guidelines.pdf (95.91 KB)

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
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Download WHO-HIV-and-young-people-who-inject-drugs.pdf (1.92 MB)

Formative Evaluations of the Gender Equality and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities: Strategies of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Formative Evaluations of the Gender Equality and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities: Strategies of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Between May and August 2011, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation conducted formative evaluations of the Gender Equality (GES) and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities (SOGI) Strategies of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund). This executive summary sets out the Foundation’s key recommendations. The full report describes the evaluation process, findings, and recommendations in further detail.
Year of publication: 
2011
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Download formative-evaluations-of-the-gender-equality-and-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identities.pdf (1.44 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
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Download north-america-caribbean-regional-report-good-practice-in-sex-worker-led-HIV-programming.pdf (2.37 MB)

Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: Latin America Regional Report

Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: Latin America Regional Report
This document summarizes the process for conducting the documenting of good practices led by sex workers. Initiation, planning and delivery of work took place between June and December 2013. This documentation of good practices in HIV programming for sex workers includes access to treatment and other priority issues that need to be addressed in each region.
Year of publication: 
2014
Media: 
Download latin-america-regional-report-good-practice-in-sex-worker-led-HIV-programming.pdf (1.66 MB)