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The Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children brochure
The Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children brochure
This brochure describes why and how a strong, strategic, and action-oriented alliance of multisectoral stakeholders at national, regional, and global levels will work with women children and adolescents living with HIV, national governments, and partners to mobilize leadership, funding, and action to end AIDS in children by 2030.
Consolidated HIV guidelines for key populations
Consolidated HIV guidelines for key populations
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.
Paediatric HIV disclosure booklets 3 and 4
Paediatric HIV disclosure booklets 3 and 4
Illustratated booklets about working with children living with HIV. These booklets focus on disclosure and health.
The Global Alliance to end AIDS in children framework
The Global Alliance to end AIDS in children framework
An end to AIDS in children, achieved through a strong, strategic, and action-oriented alliance of multisectoral stakeholders at national, regional, and global levels that works with women children and adolescents living with HIV, national governments, and partners to mobilize leadership, funding, and action to end AIDS in children by 2030.
2022 World AIDS day
2022 World AIDS day
UNICEF's 2022 World AIDS Day report provides global and regional statistical updates on children, adolescents and pregnant women. It provides seven calls to action to equalize progress for children, adolescents and pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV and summarizes trends, gaps and successes in the global HIV response.Flip through the 2022 World AIDS Day Breakthrough Partnership Spotlight Report, which highlights the Breakthrough Partnership in Uganda to support children and adolescents living with and at risk of HIV, unveiling powerful stories from the field from partners and youth champions.
Integration of mental health and HIV interventions
Integration of mental health and HIV interventions
This publication emphasizes the importance of integrating HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care; mental health services and care for people living with HIV and key and other vulnerable populations, including linkages to social protection services.It provides a compilation of tools, best practices and guidelines that facilitate the integration of interventions and services to address the interlinked issues of mental health and HIV. Although focus is on integration of mental health with HIV services, the considerations may be relevant to other services, including HIV comorbidities such as tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections.This publication is primarily intended for national and local policy-makers; global, regional, country and local programme implementers; organizations working in and providers of health, HIV, mental health and other relevant services; civil society; and community-based and community-led organizations and advocates. It brings together and refers to existing HIV and mental health, psychosocial support and other service provision guidelines, recommendations and tools, including the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) mhGAP intervention guide (49) and mhGAP operations manual (50); WHO, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other guidelines and tools related to substance use (51–59); and WHO consolidated guidelines, tools and resources on HIV testing, prevention, treatment and care (5, 7, 60–64).
Ugandan national pediatric and adolescent HIV advocacy strategy and road map 2022-2026
Ugandan national pediatric and adolescent HIV advocacy strategy and road map 2022-2026
The Republic of Uganda Ministry of Health has released its National Pediatric and Adolescent HIV Advocacy Strategy And Road Map 2022-2026, disseminated in Kampala during October 2022. The overall objective of this strategy is to complement and catalyze the ongoing national programs targeted at improving pediatric and adolescents HIV outcomes by addressing the policy and resource allocation gaps. This will be through putting in place a uniform and harmonized technical approach to advocacy across the national response stakeholders. The strategy provides standardized practical approaches to guide stakeholders in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating advocacy initiatives in support of pediatric and adolescents HIV. The strategy will institute systems to keep truck of ongoing and new advocacy initiatives to ensure they are aligned to the advocacy issues highlighted in the strategy for continuous process quality improvement and mitigate risks associated with uncoordinated advocacy initiatives.
Ending inequalities and getting on track to End AIDS by 2030
Ending inequalities and getting on track to End AIDS by 2030
End all inequalities faced by people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV, and by communities, and inequalities within and among countries, that are barriers to ending AIDS.Recognize that key populations are groups of people who are more likely to be exposed to HIV or are living with HIV. Key populations at higher risk of HIV infection include men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, sex workers and their clients, and people in prisons and other closed settings.Express concern that in sub-Saharan Africa adolescent girls and young women are at elevated risk of HIV infection, and that AIDS is a leading cause of death among adolescent girls and women aged 15–49 years.
HIV couples testing in Rwanda
HIV couples testing in Rwanda
While the project focused on HIV testing, outreach to male partners offers an opportunity for broader engagement with a range of SRH/HIV and other health-related information and services, such as male circumcision, pre-exposure prophylaxis, sexually transmitted infections, condoms, family planning, cancer screening, other sexual health concerns, and parenting. As this project demonstrated, tailoring information and services to men can catalyze changes in social and gender norms as men became more active users of SRH/HIV services and stronger advocates for both their own and women’s health and the health of their children.
Integrating mental health and TB services into primary health care in Kazakhstan
Integrating mental health and TB services into primary health care in Kazakhstan
The assessment for HIV/AIDS integration in primary health care in Kazakhstan was undertaken in 2022. The overall objective of the assessment was to use findings and lessons learnt from TB and mental health integration to guide and support integration of HIV/AIDS into primary health care.A mixed methods approach combining both qualitative and quantitative assessment methods was used. Assessment report available in English and Russian.
Flourish toolbox
Flourish toolbox
A Toolbox for Girls and Young Women Leaders on the Frontlines of Gender Justice in HealthThis toolbox, FLOURISH, is a collection of programming, advocacy, leadership, and mentorship resources and information that inform the collective action of emerging girls and young women leaders pursuing gender justice in health.It can be used to design, implement, expand, and strengthen programmes and activities of girls and young women and helps enable practical, meaningful, and impactful advocacy and leadership work across a wide variety of settings. FLOURISH has been written and inspired by young women leaders all over the world, with leadership from partners including Positive Young Women Voices (PYWV), the Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global), and the Africa Youth and Adolescent Network (AfriYAN).In supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this toolbox is part of an important effort to find innovative solutions in various forms and ways of thinking towards empowering girls and young women and promoting real and sustainable change. In addition to helping build and support their capacities and skills, it also aims to raise awareness about the need for substantial investments in community-led organizations, groups, and networks of girls and young women in all their diversities. All local and global development partners should recognize and respond to the fact that such investments are essential for real change in all aspects of gender justice.At the heart of this toolbox is the belief that the substantive leadership of girls and young women must be encouraged at all levels if we are to achieve gender justice locally, nationally, and globally. Making significant progress toward this goal requires increasing and supporting their opportunities to shape policies and practices related to the health and rights of themselves, their peers, and communities – including by holding governments, multilateral agencies, policy makers, programme managers, and other decision-makers to account.This type and scope of direct engagement is essential to ensure that gender equality commitments are translated into sustained and meaningful change in areas such as HIV prevention and treatment, human rights, and sexual and reproductive health.
Cash Plus project brief
Cash Plus project brief
For adolescent boys and girls, transitioning to adulthood means facing significant social, health and economic risks. These include a lack of economic opportunities, early marriage and pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, violence, abuse and exploitation. To support a safe, healthy and productive passage to adulthood, the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), UNICEF and other key stakeholders have developed, implemented and evaluated an intervention where social protection and economic empowerment interventions are combined with sexual and reproductive health education and services as part of the Tanzanian government’s cash transfer programme, the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN).The resources available include a project brief with a summary of the programme components and impact evaluation, as well as research briefs and reports from the baseline, midline and third wave of data collection.