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This strategic framework provides a road map to scale-up prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT) services in the most efficient manner, where value for money is achieved with the promise that no infected mother will be missed and no child will be born with HIV, where every HIV exposed infant will receive the much needed HIV test at 6 weeks of age, and linked to treatment where required.
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Key populations — sex workers (SWs), gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people (TG), and people who inject drugs (PWID) — are disproportionately affected by HIV. At the same time, the stigma, discrimination, and threat of criminal prosecution faced by key populations around the world pose serious barriers to their ability to access high-quality, rights-based health care.
This implementation guide will be useful for LINKAGES staff members wherever the program is operating, and for organizations that implement the LINKAGES program at the local level ("on the ground"). Although the guide may help partners working with LINKAGES at the country level, such as Ministries of Health, the guide is designed for LINKAGES country programs. The guide is not exhaustive. It does not cover every intervention that could be useful, and it does not go into great detail about every aspect of an intervention. Instead, it aims to give information on the essential elements of the LINKAGES program, and to help standardize country programs based on proven, high-quality interventions from other countries.
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Unitaid analyses performance against its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), publishing a KPI report in June each year, based on results during the preceding calendar year. This report presents Unitaid’s results for 2016, towards achieving the six strategic objectives outlined in Unitaid’s Strategy for 2013-2016; thus it reflects organizational performance during the final year of the strategic period.
As Unitaid moves into a new strategic period, it also takes note of important lessons learned during 2013-2016. The most critical of these is the need for increased focus on the transition and scale-up of Unitaid-supported products and approaches, both within and beyond project countries. Supporting this, to ultimately deliver impact at scale, it is critical to define, approve, monitor and evaluate investments underpinned by a sound Theory of Change, fit-for-purpose log frame, and clear operational plan. Stronger planning can minimize delays in implementation, improve project delivery and increase focus on the transition and scale-up of Unitaid’s investments, to ultimately deliver a more effective global response.
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The Fast-Track Commitments are drawn from the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, which was adopted by United Nations Member States at the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS and the UNAIDS 2016–2021 Strategy.
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Gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men are among the small number of remaining groups for which the HIV epidemic remains uncontrolled worldwide. Inability to mount responses based on epidemiologic and published research threatens to undermine gains made in reaching global targets set by UNAIDS.
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
The world has embraced the UNAIDS 90–90–90 treatment target, whereby 90% of people living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of people who know their HIV-positive status are accessing antiretroviral treatment, and 90% of people on treatment have suppressed viral loads. By reaching the 90–90–90 treatment target by 2020, the world will be firmly on track towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region is home to a quarter of the world’s population and includes two of the world’s most populous countries: India and Indonesia. The 11 countries that comprise the Region have huge social, economic and physical differences, which account for the wide variations in the HIV epidemics across the Region. The epidemic and the health sector response varies widely among and within Member States. Over 99% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) are in five countries: India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand.
The WHO Regional Health Sector Strategy on HIV, 2011–2015 was developed with the overarching aim of assisting Member States to achieve universal access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, which would contribute to the achievement of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and other health-related goals. The Strategy described the future directions and focus of work for HIV programmes and WHO in the health sector response to the HIV epidemic.
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Viral hepatitis now ranks as the seventh leading cause of mortality worldwide. Although mortality due to communicable diseases has declined globally, the absolute burden and relative ranking of viral hepatitis as a cause of mortality has increased between 1990 and 2013.
The regional action plan's goal is to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health threat in the Region by the year 2030. It aims to provide an actionable framework of evidence-based, priority interventions to support national responses for prevention, control and management of viral hepatitis.
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The global HIV epidemic claimed fewer lives in 2015 than at any point in almost two decades, and fewer people became newly infected with HIV than in any year since 1991. The list of countries on the brink of eliminating new HIV infections among children keeps growing. A massive expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced the global number of people dying from HIV-related causes to about 1.1 million in 2015 – 45% fewer than in 2005. UNAIDS/WHO estimates show that more than 18 million people were receiving ART in mid-2016.
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The Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive (Global Plan) was launched in June 2011. It prioritizes the 22 countries that, in 2009, accounted for 90% of the global number of pregnant women living with HIV who were in need of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This report summarizes the history and development of the Global Plan, its achievements in reaching ambitious goals, lessons learned and directions for future progress to end new HIV infections among children.