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.

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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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Understanding the perspectives and/ or experiences of women living with HIV regarding Option B+ in Uganda and Malawi

Understanding the perspectives and/ or experiences of women living with HIV regarding Option B+ in Uganda and Malawi is a report was produced by Rebekah Webb Consulting in partnership with ICW and GNP+. The consultants were Rebekah Webb and Marta Monteso Cullel. This report was coordinated by Amy Hsieh, with support from Adam Garner, Georgina Caswell and Sonia Haerizadeh. We would like to thank those who participated in the focus group discussions for their contribution to this study. Our sincere gratitude humbly goes out to ICWEA in Uganda and COWLHA in Malawi and for their partnership and role in recruiting participants for the focus groups. We would also like to express our sincere appreciation to Sonia Haerizadeh and Moono Nyambe for facilitating the focus group discussions and their contribution to the editing of this report. All Project Partners are immensely grateful to the World Health Organization who made this study possible. Some participants in this study reported having lost children due to HIV acquired vertically. This report is dedicated to the memory of those children and many others for whom advancements in preventing vertical transmission came too late.

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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.

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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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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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