Digital sexuality education
The Opportunity for Digital Sexuality Education
The Opportunity for Digital Sexuality Education
Global and regional epidemiological and response snapshots based on the UNAIDS 2019 HIV estimates.
Uganda leads in HIV testing and treatment innovations for children
Since 2015, Uganda has been implementing two innovations to improve care for HIV-exposed infants and young children living with HIV. The combination of point-of-care testing for early infant diagnosis of HIV and new better-tasting paediatric HIV medicines are improving care for children in Uganda, saving lives.
This publication primarily seeks to define and clarify the key elements of adolescent-friendly health services to help ensure that adolescents living with HIV receive appropriate and effective treatment, summarize existing guidance on adolescent-friendly health services and differentiated service delivery for adolescents living with HIV while showcasing best-practice case studies based on country experience in implementing these services.
This document is the result of collaborative work between the Department of HIV and Global Hepatitis Programme, WHO and the HIV/AIDS section, UNICEF.
Download a selection of abstracts related to children, HIV and AIDS published in peer-reviewed journals between July and October 2019.
The topics in this issue of the research summary are: (1) HIV in pregnancy and breastfeeding, (2) HIV prevention, (3) HIV testing and diagnostics, (4) paediatric HIV treatment, (5) HIV service delivery for adolescents and young people and (6) HIV epidemic among adolescent girls and young women.
From, UNICEF Newsletter: For every child, ending AIDS (November 2019)
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The 20th ICASA International Conference on AIDS and STI's in Africa (ICASA) will be taking place in Kigali, Rwanda on 2–7 December 2019. Download the 'Three Frees' Roadmap above to find sessions on the HIV epidemic among children, adolescents and pregnant women hosted by partners of Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free.
Watch above: How YMMs support young mothers living with HIV and their infants in Zimbabwe
The four investment cases above highlight opportunities for the private sector to engage in the global HIV response for infants, children and adolescents in partnership with UNICEF.
The 'Last Mile' road map draws on the latest scientific research and programmatic evidence to describe and recommend strategies to achieve the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (EMTCT). It includes a synthesis of evidence and country experiences for reaching EMTCT and recommends clear strategies that can improve the coverage, effectiveness and quality of national programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT). The goal of this document is to provide guidelines for coordinated action so that national programmes address local priority areas to achieve EMTCT in an effective, people-centred, efficient and directed manner.
This document was conceptualized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners including the Start Free working group, the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and it was validated by ministries of health of Botswana, Malawi, Seychelles, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
WEBINAR
FOR GIRLS BY GIRLS: Lessons learned from girl-led initiatives on HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence
Thursday, 31 October 2019
The session provides:
• Examples of effective strategies for engaging with diverse groups of adolescent girls and young women on HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV);