West and Central Africa

Toolkit for the Implementation of Baby Showers in Congregational Settings for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

IsabellaP — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:20:20 +0000

Toolkit for the Implementation of Baby Showers in Congregational Settings for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV IsabellaP Tue, 10/01/2024 - 23:20

This toolkit — prepared by members of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Nigeria and Atlanta, the University of Nigeria, the Healthy Sunrise Foundation, and the National AIDS and STI Control Program of Nigeria — provides implementers with the background, procedures, and resources/tools to support the implementation of Baby Showers in Congregational Settings. In PEPFAR programmes, countries are moving toward elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (EMTCT). One gap in achieving EMTCT is reaching women and their infants who do not come to the facility for care. The Baby Showers approach in Nigeria is one way of reaching women and their families in the community through faith-based congregations, with a strong evidence base to support its positive impact.

Baby Showers are celebratory gatherings for pregnant women and their partners with routine celebrations marked by prayers for the safe delivery of babies and to support parents-to-be as they prepare for their new arrival. Health screening, including HIV testing for pregnant women and their partners, is offered during the celebration that brings women, their partners, and their newborns together in a congregation. Other countries have expressed interest in learning from Nigeria’s experience. This resource has been adapted for implementation in additional settings and contexts and includes six accompanying tools in the appendix to aid in data collection and documentation.

PMTCT

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West and Central Africa

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Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents

IsabellaP — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:27:33 +0000

Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents IsabellaP Wed, 07/17/2024 - 17:27

UNICEF’s HIV/AIDS Thematic Fund is a global flexible funding pool. It enables us to strengthen systems to ensure an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents. This offers donors an exciting opportunity to target funding specifically to HIV/AIDS outcomes, while also giving UNICEF the flexibility to allocate funds based on where the need is greatest for children, including critically underfunded priorities at the country level, humanitarian response activities, and where funds will have the greatest impact. Thanks to our generous donors UNICEF’s Global HIV/ AIDS Thematic Fund income in 2022 reached over $5.7 million.

This document features the results achieved in 2022, when supporters of the HIV/AIDS Thematic Fund enabled UNICEF to allocate resources to 45 countries and territories. Funds were allocated to countries based on several measures determining the burden of HIV/AIDS on the population. These included the number of AIDS-related deaths in the country and the number of new infections among children and adolescents in the country. Funds were also allocated to UNICEF’s regional and global headquarters, supporting the vital work that allows thematic funding to unlock wide-scale results and impact the world over.

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Paediatric and Adolescent Treatment

Adolescent Prevention

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection

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UNICEF

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Global

Central and Eastern Europe

Eastern and Southern Africa

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West and Central Africa

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Brazil

Ukraine

Mozambique

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Health systems strengthening

Maternal, newborn and children health

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Testing

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Global and regional report

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2022

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Technical Brief on Paediatric HIV Case-Finding: Beyond Infant Testing

IsabellaP — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:01:07 +0000

Technical Brief on Paediatric HIV Case-Finding: Beyond Infant Testing IsabellaP Thu, 04/11/2024 - 18:01

Despite global progress in HIV treatment for children, the gap between adult and paediatric treatment coverage continues to widen. This gap is driven primarily by barriers to HIV diagnosis in children, but in the past decade those barriers have shifted.

Scaling-up HIV case-finding efforts for children presents several challenges, including limited access to testing services, lack of provider preparedness to offer testing to children, stigma and discrimination, policy barriers related to age of consent, and inadequate health systems. The aim of this technical brief is to offer countries a guide to address these challenges and enhance HIV case-finding for children to improve testing coverage for children at risk for HIV. This technical brief focuses primarily on how programmes can identify those children who may have missed out on EID testing, who were never tested after breastfeeding or whose mothers were not enrolled in care.

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Paediatric and Adolescent Treatment

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UNICEF

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Eastern and Southern Africa

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United Republic of Tanzania

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Key considerations for fast-tracking EMTCT in lower-prevalence settings

IsabellaP — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:14:04 +0000

Key considerations for fast-tracking EMTCT in lower-prevalence settings IsabellaP Wed, 04/03/2024 - 04:14

This key considerations document, developed by UNICEF and WHO, expands on the 2020 “last mile” operational guidance, with specific considerations for countries with lower HIV prevalence. It builds on the experiences of countries that have been validated for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis and translates the valuable lessons and promising practices of these countries into an operational framework for national programmes, consisting of 12 strategies and enablers to guide efforts towards Fast-Tracking EMTCT in lower prevalence countries.

It is based on a review of experiences, key lessons learned and promising practices in implementation of EMTCT interventions in lower prevalence countries, including Sri Lanka and Thailand, which have been validated by WHO for having eliminated vertical transmission of HIV, and three countries with the potential to achieve EMTCT by 2030: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana and India.

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UNICEF

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East Asia and the Pacific

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Sri Lanka

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Ghana

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Infants

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Cash Plus or Bundled Interventions Targeting Adolescents in Africa to Reduce HIV Risk

rlekirkegaard — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:36:42 +0000

Cash Plus or Bundled Interventions Targeting Adolescents in Africa to Reduce HIV Risk rlekirkegaard Fri, 03/22/2024 - 21:36

Adolescent Prevention

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection

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Eastern and Southern Africa

West and Central Africa

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Adolescents

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Adolescent and young key populations

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Evidence and data

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Roger et al 2024 Systematic review cash plus or bundled inventions targeting adolescents in Africa to reduce HIV risk

UNICEF at ICASA 2023

rlekirkegaard — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:17:37 +0000

UNICEF at ICASA 2023 rlekirkegaard Wed, 11/29/2023 - 12:17

The 22nd International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) is taking place in Harare, Zimbabwe on 4-9 December, 2023. Download UNICEF's Roadmap below to find conference sessions related to children, adolescents and pregnant women.

Please also refer to the roadmap from Y+ Global for an overview of all youth-focused or youth-led sessions and save-the-dates for satellite sessions convened by UNICEF and partners.

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UNICEF

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Eastern and Southern Africa

Middle East and North Africa

West and Central Africa

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Meeting report

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2023

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ICASA 2023 Roadmap

Y+ Global Roadmap for Youth Sessions at ICASA

Satellite Session - UNICEF Child Budgeting Series Zimbabwe

Satellite Session: Breakthrough Partnership

Satellite Session: Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030

2023 Global and Regional Snapshots on HIV and AIDS: Progress and priorities for children, adolescents and pregnant women

rlekirkegaard — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:46:57 +0000

2023 Global and Regional Snapshots on HIV and AIDS: Progress and priorities for children, adolescents and pregnant women rlekirkegaard Tue, 11/28/2023 - 15:46

UNICEF's annual global and regional epidemiological and response snapshots of Eastern and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa, based on the UNAIDS 2023 HIV estimates.

The snapshots describe where we are in terms of vertical transmission, the treatment gap, and the impact on adolescents.

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UNICEF

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Global

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2023 Global Snapshot on HIV and AIDS: Progress and priorities for children, adolescents and pregnant women

2023 Regional Snapshot on HIV and AIDS: West and Central Africa

2023 Regional Snapshot on HIV and AIDS: Eastern and Southern Africa

2023 Regional Snapshot on HIV and AIDS: Middle East and North Africa

2023 AU Summit Brochure

bbenghomari — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:36:24 +0000

2023 AU Summit Brochure bbenghomari Wed, 03/15/2023 - 19:36

The AU Summit Brochure was created after the inaugural countries leading the Global Alliance to end AIDS in Children met together with community representatives, UN agencies, stakeholders and partners gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on February 1st, 2023. This was done to discuss our progress and our plans to end AIDS in Children by 2030 and this brochure highlights each AU country's Global Alliance action plan.

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Partner

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Eastern and Southern Africa

West and Central Africa

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Children

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Adolescent and young key populations

Health systems strengthening

PMTCT

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Brief

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2023

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Measurement of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in countries with high HIV prevalence in women of reproductive age

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:41:20 +0000

Measurement of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in countries with high HIV prevalence in women of reproductive age admin Sun, 01/30/2022 - 05:41

This document outlines the fundamentals of PMTCT impact determination and provides considerations for development of pragmatic, streamlined and resource-efficient systems for MTCT estimate generation in high burden settings. The guidance attempts to acknowledge the current reality of PMTCT programme data and the need for reliable MTCT rates while also encouraging a forward-looking approach towards sustainable PMTCT programme data improvements.

Note that this document is intended for countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a high prevalence of HIV among women of reproductive age. Although many of the underlying principles are relevant to settings with a lower burden of HIV, the guidance is not targeted for those programmes.

The tools in appendix 2 can be accessed here.

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Early and late measurement of MTCT (technical brief)

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection: State of the evidence 2012 in sub-Saharan Africa

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:19:04 +0000

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection: State of the evidence 2012 in sub-Saharan Africa admin Sun, 01/30/2022 - 05:19

This review provides a conceptual framework for HIV-sensitive social protection policies and programmes and review the impact of social protection on HIV prevention and treatment outcomes in addition to social and economic care and support. It further provides recommendations for achieving core HIV impacts, comprehensive approaches, and expanding and sustaining HIV-sensitive social protection.

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