Consolidated HIV guidelines for key populations

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These WHO guidelines outline a public health response to HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted  infections (STIs) for five key populations (men who have sex with men, trans and gender  diverse people, sex workers, people who inject drugs and people in prisons and other closed  settings). The guidelines present and discuss new recommendations and consolidate a range of  recommendations and guidance from current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. 

These guidelines focus on the above five groups, originally defined as “key” in the HIV response  across the three infectious disease areas:

• The structural barriers which limit the five key populations’ access to HIV services also limit 
  their access to viral hepatitis and STI services.
• HIV risk behaviours such as condomless sex and unsafe injecting, which are in general more 
  common in key populations, are also among those that increase the risk of acquiring viral 
  hepatitis and STIs.
• Many of the interventions recommended for HIV prevention also have an impact on 
  transmission of viral hepatitis and STIs.