WHO Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Testing Services

This document provides a new recommendation to support HTS by trained lay providers, considers the potential of HIV self-testing to increase access to and coverage of HIV testing, and outlines focused and strategic approaches to HTS that are needed to support the new UN 90 –90 –90 global HIV targets.

The majority of information on gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender people can be found beginning on page 69.

Year of publication:

2015

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UNAIDS Supplement Tool to Set and Monitor Targets for HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations

This document is the supplement to the consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnoses, treatment and care for key populations, in which WHO brings together all existing guidance relevant to key populations- gay men and men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, people in prisons and other closed settings, sex workers, and transgender people.

Year of publication:

2014, 2015

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UNAIDS Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations

In this new consolidated guidelines document on HIV prevention, diagnoses, treatment and care for key populations, WHO brings together all existing guidance relevant to key populations – gay men and men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, people in prisons and other closed settings, sex workers, and transgender people.

Year of publication:

2014, 2015

Media:

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UNAIDS Information Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex People

This information brief describes how discriminatory attitudes, laws and practices, combined with inadequate legal protections, expose LGBTI of all ages and in all regions of the world to violations of their human rights.

Year of publication:

2015

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UNAIDS Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS

The resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly in June, 2011 and centered on intensifying efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS.

Year of publication:

2011

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Services for Gay Men and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men

This Guidance Note provides simple, concise and practical guidance on services for gay men and other men who have sex with men. References and links to full guidance are provided in the last section of the Guidance Note.

Year of publication:

2014

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Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender People

These guidelines include evidence-based recommendations, the summary and grading of evidence, implementation issues, and key research gaps. The document presents good practice recommendations that focus on ensuring an enabling environment for the recognition and protection of the human rights of MSM and transgender people.

Year of publication:

2011

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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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