This WHO’s Evidence Brief highlights some of the key points of discussion during the ESA regional consultation on HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health and rights for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) held in Windhoek on 1-3 February. The Evidence Brief is now available here.
WHO launched in May the long-awaited Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to Support Country Implementation. Click here for the press-release and other resources. This is a guidance to operationalize the adolescent component of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2020). Interestingly, this new guidance moves away from entry points for adolescent health, as HIV and SRH, to address broader adolescent health issues. Click here to access the AA-HA! guidance document.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance published in May 2017 a good practice guide on Adolescent HIV programming. This guide contains information, strategies and resources, including UNICEF materials, to help programmers meet good practice standards for HIV programming for adolescents. It can be used at any time in the programme cycle to assess good practice, and to help develop proposals and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
Presentations:
Performance of point-of-care birth HIV testing in primary health care clinics: an observational cohort study
Bindiya Meggi, MSc
Accelerating Access and Integration of Innovative Point of Care Diagnostics for HIV in National Diagnostics Programmes
As the number of people accessing life-saving drugs for HIV has risen, there has been an increasing sense that the end of AIDS was near. But for children and adolescents, the situation remains grave.
UNICEF’s Global HIV Response 2017–2021 Addressing the global HIV epidemic among pregnant women, mothers, children and adolescents
A documentation of case studies from Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam on Young Key Population involvement in the Global Fund processes