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UNAIDS has called on all countries to harness the next several years (until 2020) as a key window of opportunity for rapidly scaling up the HIV response in three main areas: HIV prevention, HIV testing and HIV treatment. This Fast-Track approach—endorsed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in the 2016 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS—requires maximizing existing tools in order to quicken the pace of progress to achieve specific targets and end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
This document offers guidance on why and how efforts to Fast-Track HIV prevention, testing and treatment services can and should be grounded in human rights. Beyond being an imperative in themselves, human rights principles and approaches are critical to addressing barriers to HIV services and to achieving HIV targets. Human rights principles and approaches will help maximize the reach and impact of HIV prevention, testing and treatment programmes. They also will help address potential human rights challenges and prevent abuses that may occur in the context of urgent efforts to Fast-Track the achievement of HIV prevention, testing and treatment targets.
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Families, communities, cities and countries have witnessed a transformation, with access to HIV treatment accelerating in the past three years. A record 19.5 million people are accessing antiretroviral therapy, and for the first time more than half of all people living with HIV are on treatment. More countries are paying for HIV treatment themselves. More people living with HIV are employed, more girls are in school, there are fewer orphans, there is less ill health and less poverty. Families and communities are feeling more secure.
This report demonstrates the power of the 90–90–90 targets and what can be achieved in a short time. It shows that innovations are possible at every level—from communities to research laboratories, from villages to cities. It illustrates the power of political leadership to make the impossible possible.
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This report provides the current state of the epidemic, drawing mainly from the HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines, the latest projections from the AIDS Epidemic Modeling, and the most recent analyses of the Integrated HIV Behavioral and Serologic Surveillance. Best available evidence underscores the urgency to enhance and intensify interventions for key populations, specifically young males and transgender women who have sex with males (M/TSM) and people who inject drugs (PWID) who comprise a significant proportion of new infections. But in working with and among key populations, women—especially female partners of MSM and people who inject drugs—cannot be left behind if the country is to prevent further increase of HIV infection among pregnant women. This also takes stock of recent programmatic reforms and offers evidence to guide program and policy development. It documents the gains from recent enhancements to the country’s provision of HIV services (i.e. piloting of the rapid HIV diagnostic algorithm) and highlights persistent challenges in terms of linkage to care and viral load testing.
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Adolescents living with HIV are in urgent need of improved approaches to address their specific health needs. Evidence indicates higher rates of loss to follow up, and poor adherence, as well as increased needs for psychosocial support. This population group continues to be underserved by current HIV services and have significantly worse access to and coverage of ART. Despite a rapidly growing area of HIV research, a considerable amount of effort is still needed to inform the understanding of what works for this population. Improving outcomes for adolescents and reaching global targets for an AIDS FREE generation by 2030 will require evidence-based interventions and policies. These should take into consideration the developmental stage of adolescence while comprehensively addressing the multiple needs of adolescents living with HIV and actively engaging them in their own healthcare.
To overcome these barriers and challenges in a context of increasing funding constraints, targeted research is urgently required to bridge identified research gaps and inform policy on adolescent HIV.
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ART training manual has been prepared for medical personnel (Medical doctors, Health Assistants, Staff nurses and other HIV/AIDS care providers) who had taken basic HIV training. The training manual is developed to train and built capacity of doctors, nurses, health assistants and other HIV/AIDS care providers working in public as well as private health institutions in the region to diagnose and manage HIV and HIV-related diseases, including opportunistic infections (OI). Improving care for OIs and HIV-related conditions is a critical component of HIV programs.
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When women lead, change happens. Results follow.
The AIDS response has been led by women. When there was no treatment available, women were at the forefront of providing care for people living with and affected by HIV. Grandmothers looked after orphans. Elder sisters looked after their younger siblings. Women fought for access to treatment and mobilized.
Today, we are at the cusp of eliminating new HIV infections among children—a movement led by women. More women are accessing antiretroviral therapy than men, transferring the benefits of their good health to their families and economies. When young women are empowered and have their rights fulfilled, HIV prevalence falls, there are fewer unintended pregnancies, fewer maternal deaths and fewer dropouts from school and more women join the workforce. When young women have access to education, health outcomes dramatically improve.
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The 90-90-90 targets and the HIV testing and treatment cascade are two ways of looking at the same data. The targets were instrumental in galvanizing global action for HIV treatment access.
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The aim of the report is to document participation efforts and outcomes across countries, and highlight differences and constraints identified to date. In this first GLASS report data vary considerably in terms of completeness, so no attempt was made to compare AMR status at a regional or global level. However, as GLASS and country participation evolves, the data reported will help understand surveillance capacities and mechanisms of reporting across countries in all regions, and will inform further GLASS development.
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Competition law is an important policy tool that LMICs can use to protect consumer welfare and promote industrial and economic development. It aims to restrict unfair business practices, and promote quicker introduction and increased availability of health technologies. The issue brief highlights key aspects of using competition law to promote access to health technologies from UNDP’s landmark publication “Using Competition Law to Promote Access to Health Technologies: A guidebook for low- and middle-income countries.” The issue brief intends to be a resource for policymakers, national competition authorities, national procurement agencies, health authorities, civil society and other actors who have an interest in understanding the critical role of competition authorities in promoting access to health technologies.
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This report provides in-depth technical discussions in areas that have direct implications to the containment of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a development agenda. The report is organized in five chapters which served as the technical background documents for the Biregional Technical Consultation on AMR in Asia, 14-15 April 2016.