GIYPA Roadmap: Supporting Young People Living withe HIV to Be Meaningfully Involved in the HIV Response

Young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) around the world are making a difference in the HIV response. This roadmap, developed by GNP +, makes some suggestions on how you can become more involved with different HIV efforts in your community, country, or globally. Each chapter in this roadmap outlines one of the five steps towards GIYPA:

Understanding what is meant by ‘the HIV response’
Finding good reasons to become involved
Linking you and organisations together
Sustaining and growing your involvement
Seeing Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention in action

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Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV

This Guidance Package, developed by people living with HIV, describes the important issues and key areas for change. Going forward, legislators, government ministries, international organizations, donors, and community- and faith-based organizations, with the continued input and guidance of people living with HIV, must work together to put in place the services and legal supports that will build better sexual and reproductive health for everyone.

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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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Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention: Operational Guidelines

Developed by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention represents a fundamental shift in the way in which people living with HIV are involved in the HIV response:

It calls for leadership by people living with HIV, including those from key populations
It transforms the concept of access to services, from a simple biomedical model to a holistic approach to meeting the needs of people living with HIV and their families in their communities
It puts the person living with HIV in the centre, and calls for a comprehensive set of actions – at policy and service delivery levels – that take into consideration the individual’s lived environment; and
It recognises the importance of meeting not only the person’s clinical needs but also their health needs and to protect their human rights.

The Opeational Guidelines were developed for and by people living with HIV based on numerous consultations at the global, regional, and national levels. It articulates the next stage in the HIV response, where people living with HIV are at the centre and services offered in an environment that is supportive to meet all the needs of people living with HIV and their families. Instead of being regarded by “positive prevention” programmes as mere recipients of care and vessels of a virus that needs to be contained, people living with HIV embrace a new paradigm where they are actively involved as part of the solution to the epidemic and not seen as part of the problem.

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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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