How AIDS Changed Everything: MDG 6 Report

A comprehensive report on the AIDS response over the last 15 years. It includes lessons learned, challenges and gaps that remain, and actions for the future. The majority of information on gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender people can be found in the “Key Populations” chapter, beginning on page 342.

Year of publication:

2015

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Salud, Dignidad y Prevención Positivas

Published in 2013 by GNP+ and UNAIDS, the primary goals of Salud, Dignidad y Prevención Positivas (Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention) are to improve the dignity, quality, and length of life of people living with HIV. If achieved, this will, in turn, have beneficial effects on their partners, families, and communities, including reducing the likelihood of new infections. Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention is not just a new name for the concept of HIV prevention for and by people living with HIV, formerly known as ‘positive prevention’. Rather, Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention is built upon a broader foundation that includes improving and maintaining the dignity of the individual living with HIV; supports and enhances the individual’s physical, mental, emotional and sexual health; and, which, in turn, among other benefits, creates an enabling environment that will reduce the likelihood of new HIV infections.

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Santé positive dignite et prévention

Published in 2013 by GNP+ and UNAIDS, the primary goals of Santé positive dignite et prévention (Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention) are to improve the dignity, quality, and length of life of people living with HIV. If achieved, this will, in turn, have beneficial effects on their partners, families, and communities, including reducing the likelihood of new infections. Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention is not just a new name for the concept of HIV prevention for and by people living with HIV, formerly known as ‘positive prevention’. Rather, Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention is built upon a broader foundation that includes improving and maintaining the dignity of the individual living with HIV; supports and enhances the individual’s physical, mental, emotional and sexual health; and, which, in turn, among other benefits, creates an enabling environment that will reduce the likelihood of new HIV infections.

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Global Policy, Local Disconnects: A Look into the Implementation of the 2013 HIV Treatment Guidelines

Published in 2014, The Global Policy, Local Disconnects: A Look Into the Implementation of the 2013 HIV Treatment Guidelines report is a global initiative undertaken by The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) that investigates what the reality was on the ground for people living with HIV. Utilizing ITPC’s nine Regional Networks and ARASA partners in Southern Africa, a cross-section of people living with HIV, service providers and other stakeholders were surveyed across the globe for their experiences, opinions and insights. The report provides a reality check to talk of ending AIDS and discusses the barriers at the community level to scaling up treatment.

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Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of Men who have Sex with Men Living With HIV

Published in 2010 by GNP+ and MSMGF, Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV is a detailed and comprehensive report that describes the key areas of policy and practice change needed to advance the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of people living with HIV.

The report is also available in French and Spanish.

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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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UNAIDS Guidance for Partnerships with Civil Society, Including People Living with HIV and Key Populations

This document provides guidance on how The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), its Cosponsors and Secretariat (working at national, regional and global levels) should strengthen and operationalize meaningful and respectful partnership work with civil society. It should enable the UN to deliver the targets and elimination commitments agreed in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. It assumes that putting partnerships into practice will take place in the context of Getting to Zero (UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015) and be supported by the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF)—which is, in essence, the UNAIDS work plan to deliver on Getting to Zero—as well as other key UNAIDS programming and budgeting documents.

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Verdict on a Virus: Public Health, Human Rights and Criminal Law

This document is intended for anyone who wants to know more about the criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure and the related health, human rights, and legal implications. It can help you to become more familiar with the latest laws, legal support, and other services relating to HIV in your country or region. The 10 key questions in this guide provide a snapshot of case studies and opinions from around the world; they ask and answer the key questions about the criminalization of HIV transmission and exposure – what it is and why it is an increasingly important issue now; and what are the human dimensions in terms of health, stigma, human rights, the law, and the experiences of people living with HIV. This guide provides resources and information to:

Support legal advocacy and social mobilization in countries that criminalize HIV transmission or exposure in order to repeal or reform these laws;
Consolidate arguments and document why the criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure is not an effective approach for promoting public health;
Catalyse national and international activism to prevent future laws on criminalization being enacted or applied; and
Support people living with HIV to become more familiar with legal issues and their rights.

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