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Resource | Fact Sheets,
The sexual partners and drug injecting partners of people diagnosed with HIV infection have an increased probability of also being HIV-positive.
Assisted HIV partner notification services are a simple and effective way to reach these partners, many of whom are undiagnosed and unaware of their HIV exposure, and may welcome support and an opportunity to test for HIV.
Assisted partner notification has been an important public health approach in infectious disease management for decades, including in programmes for sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis, but has not been routinely implemented for people with HIV.
Resource | Data Sheets,
Regional progress and country profiles on hepatitis B vaccination coverage and hepatitis B prevalence.
Resource | Publications,
The "Cascade of HIV Testing, Care and Treatment Services, 2013 & 2014: Selected Country Profiles" highlights progress toward the goal to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Country profiles consist of key indicators for monitoring the national HIV response, including progress towards the 90-90-90 treatment targets and the tracking of patients across the cascade of HIV services for all people living with HIV, women and children receiving services to prevent parent-to-child transmission, and coinfected tuberculosis and HIV cases. Selected countries, demonstrating the diversity of HIV epidemics across the Western Pacific Region, include Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam.
Resource | Publications,
During 2014-15, the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) in collaboration with the National Reproductive and Child Health Programme has included screening for HIV and syphilis in the essential package of ante-natal care services for all pregnant women. This will enable India to eliminate both HIV and syphilis in the new born.
Early testing and diagnosis, on a voluntary basis, is the gateway to HIV prevention, treatment, care and other support services. The challenge is to increase access to and uptake of HIV testing among priority populations. This warrants different innovative strategic approaches suitable for implementation across different states and union territories of India.
The present 'National HIV Counselling and Testing Services Guidelines 2016' provides extensive details on the different strategic approaches with implementation plan to scale up the reach and coverage of services to priority populations.
Resource | Tools,
The HIV and social protection assessment tool is used for a quick scan of existing social protection programmes and their sensitivity (or lack of) to the HIV response in a given country and location. Additional follow-up and research that engages the different critical actors, including HIV programme managers, social protection administrators, beneficiaries and civil society representatives, may be necessary in some contexts. The assessment provides countries and communities with tailored analysis on HIV and social protection.
Information gathered using the assessment tool is intended to support decision-making in strengthening the HIV sensitivity of social protection schemes to better reach people living with HIV, adolescent girls and young women, key populations and others, and inform the development of national HIV-sensitive social protection portals, revision of national AIDS strategies, HIV investment cases, concept notes for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other social welfare and poverty alleviation programmes.
Resource | Tools,
The People Living with HIV Stigma Index conducted by the Cambodian Network of People living with HIV (2010) and a study conducted by the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV (2012) revealed that people living with and affected by HIV experience discrimination in their daily lives, including denial of access to health services such as sexual and reproductive health services and dental care, and breach of confidentiality by health care providers. A recent study supported by Asia Catalyst has confirmed these practices continue even today.
This training manual, titled Positive Protection: Empowering People Affected by HIV to Protect their Rights at Health Care Settings, will contribute to meeting the SDGs by empowering people affected by HIV in Cambodia with the information, skills and strategies they need, in order to ensure that their rights are respected when they seek health care services and to have access to legal redress in the event of rights violations and to work collectively to identify and propose solutions to systemic issues.
Resource | Publications,
The document aims to portray the meaningful engagement of young people, particularly young key populations (YKP), in the New Funding Model (NFM) process in Indonesia manifesting their greater ability of advocacy, dialogues and technical inputs. Fokus Muda, the national forum of young key populations in Indonesia highly capitalized the essence of NFM broadly supported by the national stakeholders. They played integral role in the development of national strategic plan on HIV, engaged in numerous country dialogues organized by the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and civil society, formed coalition with the civil society, held numerous bi-lateral meetings with the technical partners and CCM members and provided inputs in the draft concept note of the Global Fund.
The result was readily observed where the final concept note submitted by Indonesia to the Global Fund integrated the issues of some YKP, while inability to integrate remaining YKP became the global advocacy agenda to review and amend the modular template of the Global Fund concept note.
Resource | Guidelines,
Endorsed, by the UN Secretary-General, this is a comprehensive WHO guideline on routine ANC for pregnant women and adolescent girls. It aims to complement existing WHO guidelines on the management of specific pregnancy-related complications. The guidance aims to capture the complex nature of the issues surrounding ANC health care practices and delivery, and to prioritize person-centred health and well-being, not only the prevention of death and morbidity, in accordance with a human rights-based approach.
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This report presents the latest findings from collation and analysis of viral hepatitis data obtained from the disease notification system, service statistics, seroprevalence studies and other research findings. Much hopeful that the local viral hepatitis picture can be painted accurately and fully, this is certainly limited by the nature and availability of data. The presence of biases in data per se and their interpretation need to be acknowledged in reading this report.
Resource | Tools,
This publication provides guidance to governments, civil-society organizations (nongovernmental organizations [NGOs] and community-based organizations), and other partners implementing HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs with key populations. The approach recognizes that site-level monitoring and individual tracking are needed to ensure that key population individuals access high-quality outreach and clinical services routinely, and that these services are run efficiently. This guide is designed to assist these programs as they establish monitoring systems that are used by frontline workers, including peer outreach workers, staff outreach supervisors, program managers, and others to understand performance. It includes comprehensive tools and forms that various levels of staff can use to collect and analyze data to manage and improve the program. These include population size estimation tools, mapping tools, facility monitoring tools, and client registers.