In June 2016, ICAP and partners convened a three-day, PEPFAR-supported meeting to explore the practical challenges of scaling up routine viral load testing in sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting took place in Ezulwini, Swaziland and brought together over 150 public health experts from 15 countries. This meeting report provides a comprehensive summary of the convening.
This framework has been designed for CSOs to help you plan your work around infant HIV testing. There is a particular focus on Africa, as programmes to introduce point-of-care machines have so far focused on African countries, but we hope that the framework can be used by anyone wanting to work on early infant diagnosis of HIV.
Namibia's National Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy (5th Edition) incorporates the latest WHO guidelines for treating and supporting people living with HIV. These guidelines utilize the 90-90-90 targets to end global AIDS by 2030 as a vision to end the AIDS epidemic in Namibia. The plan discusses expansion of HIV treatment and prevention, management of PrEP, PEP, and other ART, viral load monitoring, and patient centred HIV care for special populations.
Research commissioned by UNICEF through the OHTA Initiative Presented by Laurie Ackerman Gulaid, Consultant
2014 IATT Webinar Series
This presentation from the IATT Webinar Series in December 2014 summarizes research to support the scale up of lifelong ART for pregnant and breastfeeding women. It presents guiding principles, promising practices and key considerations for community-facility linkages.
Report on the external mid-term, formative evaluation of the Optimizing HIV Treatment Access (OHTA) for pregnant and breastfeeding women Initiative in Uganda, Malawi, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This brief is intended for colleagues in UNICEF country offices working on El Niño response plans in order to make appropriate links to HIV and ensure that risks are mitigated and addressed. It highlights the effects of El Niño’s impact on HIV-related vulnerabilities and services, and on people living with HIV. This brief can also be used for advocacy with governments, development partners and donors.
The purpose is to help participants develop the contingency planning they need in order to be able to continue to provide HIV-related services in humanitarian situations (e.g. a ood, an earthquake, violence, etc.). In the best case scenario, the national contingency plan includes HIV, but this is often not the case. After this exercise, the plan should be synced into the national contingency plan.
This checklist for "Why, Where and How to Coordinate HIV and Child Protection Policy and Programming" was developed in response to the call from practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa for some practical guidance on how to link HIV and child protection policy and programming. There is a strong, and growing, body of evidence to show that achieving an AIDS-free generation depends on protecting children from abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect, and vice versa.
Building HIV-Sensitive Social Protection Systems through the ‘Cash plus Care’ Model: Findings from East and Southern Africa