HIV Programming for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in High-HIV Burden Settings

This Technical Brief provides updated guidance to Global Fund applicants and implementers to leverage Global Fund financing that will further advance progress in scaling up effective programming for AGYW, in line with global partner guidance and global targets and initiatives such as the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free Joint Agenda and the Global HIV Prevention Coalition Agenda.

Validation Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis

This governance guidance provides clarity, consistency and detail related to the structure, function, composition and operational duties of validation committees at national, regional and global levels as an extension to what is provided in the Global guidance on the criteria and processes for validation: elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. In addition, this publication describes the standardized methods for country programme review and validation of EMTCT of HIV and syphilis and PTE at these levels.