Publications

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.

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.

Media engagement was one of the key elements of the 20-month project, Increasing Access To Justice For LGBTI Communities In Indonesia, that OutRight Action International coordinated in 2015 and 2016. Given the impact of unbalanced media reporting on LGBTI communities, including incitement to violent discrimination, one of OutRight's Indonesian partners, Kemitraan, a national organization on good governance and government reform did a media mapping to show how mainstream media, community media and social media portrayed LGBTI issues and LGBTI people. The findings show that biased negative reporting bias spread intolerance. False media stories about LGBTI people increased the Indonesian public's fears about LGBTI people as a national security threat and a danger to society.

A new effort is urgently needed to reinvigorate primary HIV prevention. It needs to build on lessons learned from previous prevention initiatives and other successful initiatives, such as the Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, which successfully galvanized efforts to reduce new child infections. The overarching goal of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition will be to strengthen and sustain political commitment for primary prevention by setting a common agenda among key policy-makers, funders and programme implementers. It also will seek to establish accountability for delivering services at scale. Success requires country ownership and commitment plus global and national actions. The Prevention Coalition will launch the Prevention2020 Road Map, engage stakeholders and leaders in its effective implementation, monitoring, and annual reporting on progress.

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017 reviews progress made towards the 17 Goals in the second year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report is based on the latest available data. It highlights both gains and challenges as the international community moves towards full realization of the ambitions and principles espoused in the 2030 Agenda. While considerable progress has been made over the past decade across all areas of development, the pace of progress observed in previous years is insufficient to fully meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets by 2030. Time is therefore of the essence. Moreover, as the following pages show, progress has not always been equitable. Advancements have been uneven across regions, between the sexes, and among people of different ages, wealth and locales, including urban and rural dwellers. Faster and more inclusive progress is needed to accomplish the bold vision articulated in the 2030 Agenda.

Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals requires national, regional and international cooperative endeavours. The aim of this regional road map is to facilitate cooperation at the regional level, supported by the secretariat and other United Nations entities through the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordination Mechanism as appropriate. The road map places particular emphasis on supporting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by developing countries, in particular by least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States, countries in conflict situations and post-conflict countries and other countries with special needs. In line with the 2030 Agenda, the objective of the road map is to promote the balanced integration of the three dimensions of sustainable development through regional cooperation in a set of priority areas that support effective pursuit of sustainable development by member States.

This study is an effort to explore in depth the young people's sexual and reproductive health issues. It is expected to elicit interest from the politicians, policy makers and international partners, and stimulate public discussions on the youth issues, challenges and concerns. The report is also expected to provide guidance in designing policy interventions. The report includes topics on the 'quantitative analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues using the NHS (2012) data', 'retrospective analysis of the hospital-based records of early age pregnancy' and 'qualitative analysis of sexual attitude and behavior of young people in Bhutan'.

In 2016, GNP+ worked diligently to reinvigorate our activist voice and expand our partnerships and programming, while continuing our core capacity building work with PLHIV and key population networks around the world. The highlight of the year, undoubtedly, was our successful 2016 Positive LIVING Leadership Summit which brought together over 270 people living with HIV from 78 countries to engage in two days of intensive discussion, sharing, learning, celebrating and strategizing prior to the 2016 International AIDS conference in Durban. The participants in the Summit forged new partnerships, strengthened old and existing relationships and are now embarking on ambitious advocacy initiatives to address stigma and discrimination and fight for universal access to treatment, care and prevention initiatives for and led by people living with HIV. Although we remain a small organization, we endeavor to make a large impact in our collective fight to ensure the rights, health, safety and wellness of people living with HIV and empower members of our communities to strengthen their representation and voice in local, national and international policy and programmatic arenas.

In early 2013, the National HIV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan 2013-2017 was developed to compliment the National HIV Strategic Plan (NSP) 2013-2017, and guide the implementation of the NSP’s Strategic Direction 3 – Strategic Information Management Systems. This document provides an updated M&E Plan for the 2016-2018 period, incorporating recommendations from the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the NSP 2013-2017, and two in-depth Monitoring and Evaluation System Strengthening Assessments, one focused on the health sector HIV response and one focused on the multi-sectorial HIV response. This document is for all M&E and program staff involved in the National HIV/STI response, including partners in other units of the Ministry of Health, and other Government line ministries. In addition, the document will be useful for national and international partners and funders of HIV/STI activities.

HRP has been providing leadership on sexual and reproductive health and rights for over 40 years. Founded in 1972, we have a unique mandate within the United Nations (UN) system to lead research and to build research capacity for improving sexual and reproductive health and rights through generating high-quality evidence. HRP’s vision is the attainment of the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health for every single person across the globe. We strive for a world where human rights that enable sexual and reproductive health are safeguarded, and where all people have access to quality sexual and reproductive health information and services.