Harm Reduction for People Who Use Drugs

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.

Les droits de l’homme dans le cadre des subventions liées au VIH, à la tuberculose, au paludisme et au renforcement des systèmes de santé

Right of Man
Cette note fournit des conseils et des exemples pratiques pour élaborer des programmes relatifs aux droits de l’homme qui, s’ils sont incorporés aux notes conceptuelles, contribueront sensiblement à améliorer les résultats en matière de santé et l’accès aux services de santé. Dans le cadre du nouveau modèle de financement, les candidats sont vivement encouragés à incorporer à leurs notes conceptuelles une programmation basée sur les droits de l’homme.

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

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.

Country Dialogue Training

Country Dialogue Training
This 2014 training from the Global Fund offers a recap of the core principles of the new funding model (NFM) and emphasizes an inclusive country dialogue process to achieve its goals. The NFM guidance focuses on:

Bigger impact: focus on countries with the highest disease burden and lowest ability to pay, while keeping the portfolio global
Predictable funding: process and financing levels become more predictable, with higher success rate of applications
Ambitious vision: ability to elicit full expressions of demand and reward ambition
Flexible timing: in line with country schedules, context, and priorities
More streamlined: for both implementers and the Global Fund 

Key Changes under the New Funding Model

Key Changes under the New Funding Model
This 2014 powerpoint presentation published by the Global Fund focuses on inclusiveness of country dialogue as it relates to the timing of concept note submission and access to funding. Country dialogue is essential to deal with strongholds of infection among young women and girls; men who have sex with men; sex workers; people who inject drugs and prisoners. If stakeholders hope to address this epidemic, it is necessary to deal with the strongholds and to have tools available for the most vulnerable. These goals require an inclusive human family.

Community, Rights, Gender and the New Funding Model: Global Fund Briefing for Technical Assistance Providers

Community, Rights, Gender and the New Funding Model Global Fund Briefing For Technical Assistance Providers
This March 2014 briefing from the Global Fund inludes 60-plus slides that are intended to aid technical assistance providers. The Global Fund recognizes that communities often lack access to the knowledge and information necessary to play an active role in Global Fund processes. Moreover, the impact of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs is often limited because they pay insufficient attention to barriers related to human rights, gender, and other inequalities and exclusions. In order to ensure that all those who are affected by the three diseases play a meaningful role in Global Fund processes, and that these barriers are effectively addressed in grants, the Global Fund Board has approved a special initiative to provide technical assistance to communities and civil society. For more information on the Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender Technical Assistance program, click here. 

Introduction to the New Funding Model

Introduction to the New Funding Model
This February 2014 guidance from the Global Fund provides an introduction to the new funding model for grant applications. The new model is intended to improve the way the Global Fund
assesses, approves, disburses, and monitors grants.
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Engage!: Practical Tips to Ensure the New Funding Model Delivers the Impact Communities Need

Engage! brochure
This April 2014 brochure, Engage!: Practical Tips to Ensure the New Funding Model Delivers the Impact Communities Need, provides practical tips to ensure the new funding model delivers the impact communities need. Engage! has four main components:

understanding the new funding model;
determining how civil society should engage with country dialogue;
offering assistance about how civil society should develop concept notes and grants; and
a sample civil society process meeting agenda

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