Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!)
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.
Good Practice Guide – Adolescent HIV Programming
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.
2016 IATT Paediatric ARV Optimal Formulary List
Developed by the IATT in response to procurement and supply challenges resulting from fragmented demand for paediatric ARVs, and has been developing guidance around the selection of optimal products since 2011, this brief is intended for use by programme managers and policy makers and provides formulary selection and procurement guidance for the optimal paediatric ARV dosage forms needed to provide all WHO recommended 1st and 2nd line regimens while simplifying supply chain and easing administration. The brief includes both the Optimal Paediatric ARV formulary as well as the Limited Use list of those formulations that may be needed in special circumstances. As the Optimal Formulary and Limited Use lists are updated on a regular basis, explanation is provided for updates made since 2013.
Point of Care - HIV Diagnosis: Bringing Faster Results for Each and More Effective Treatment
Accelerating Access and Integration of Innovative Point of Care Diagnostics for HIV in National Diagnostics Programmes
Fact Sheet: 2017 Children and AIDS
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.