Tools and Guidelines

People who use drugs are heavily affected by HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB) and are often neglected in countries' and cities' responses to the epidemics. There are effective means to prevent and treat HIV, HCV and TB among people who use drugs, but resources (financial, human and material) are often not adequately invested to make them accessible. The reasons for this are multifaceted and include criminalization, stigma, discrimination and denial of basic human rights to people who use drugs.  This IDUIT Brief Guide for People who Use Drugs is intended to outline the key concepts of Implementing Comprehensive HIV and HCV Programs with People who Inject Drugs: Practical Guidance for Collaborative Interventions (the IDUIT) related to prevention, treatment and empowerment with regard to HIV and HCV, and point to how activists and professionals from among the community of people who use drugs might promote better policy and practice. 

The International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education was developed to assist education, health and other relevant authorities in the development and implementation of school-based and out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education programmes and materials.  Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), youth workers and young people can also use the document as an advocacy or accountability tool, for example by sharing it with decision-makers as a guide to best practices and/or for its integration within broader agendas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals.

The ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW) is an ASEAN sectoral body established in 1976. Its mandate is to implement, coordinate and monitor the implementation of ASEAN’s key regional priorities and cooperation on women’s issues. Violence against women (VAW) is a violation of human rights which is a form of discrimination against women. It is a manifestation of historically and structurally unequal power relations and inequalities between women and men, which prevail in all countries and which impacts all aspects of the victim’s private and public life. VAW violates human rights and fundamental freedoms of women limits their access to control over and ownership of resources, and impedes the full development of their potential.

ASEAN Member States (AMS) have a policy of zero tolerance for any form of violence against children (VAC). The ultimate goal of this plan is therefore the elimination of all forms of VAC in the AMS. The elimination of VAC is a challenge in all countries and in every society, race, class and culture. It is a violation of human rights, upheld in the Convention on the Rights of the Child which prescribes that every child has the right to survive, grow and be protected from all forms of violence. All children have the right to be respected for their human dignity, physical and psychological integrity and to equal protection.

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to national AIDS programmes and partners on the use of indicators to measure and report on the country response.

These guidelines present evidence-based recommendations and best practice statements on the use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals, based on the WHO list of critically important antimicrobials for human medicine (WHO CIA List). These guidelines aim primarily to help preserve the effectiveness of medically important antimicrobials, particularly those antimicrobials judged to be critically important to human medicine and also help preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobials for veterinary medicine, in direct support of the WHO global action plan on antimicrobial resistance.

This new document – the guide to develop a national TB PPM action plan – is a planning document designed to facilitate the integration of strong PPM components into national TB strategic plans that are supposed to be the basis for Global Fund proposals and national budgeting processes, and will help drive a more comprehensive approach to provider engagement in TB care and prevention.

Cambodia had one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in Asia and the Pacific region in the mid-1990s and became one of the few countries to have HIV trend reversed within five years. The HIV estimations and projections conducted in 2016 indicated that the HIV prevalence among general adult populations fell from an estimated peak of 1.7% in 1998 to 0.6% in 2016 and will continue to reach 0.5% by 2020. The number of HIV newly infected yearly is around 700 cases from 2016 to 2020. The decline trend reflects a ten folds reduction in annual new infections in the last twenty years. It is also estimated that approximately 15,000 people living with HIV who do not know their status.

SAARC Regional Training Manual on Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB (PMDT)” is a tool to facilitate SAARC Regional Training of Trainers on Management of Drug Resistant TB in SAARC region. This manual is prepared based on the Guidelines developed by Second Workshop to Develop Regional Guidelines for Treatment of MDR-TB and Third Meeting of Lab Directors from Reference Laboratories in SAARC Region held in Bhutan in 2007.

This document is intended for conducting training thereby the development of human resource in TB and HIV/AIDS control and prevention. TB and HIV infection control are a combination of measures aimed at minimizing the risk of transmission within populations. Infection control requires and complements implementation of core activities in TB and HIV control and overall health-systems strengthening. It should be a major part of national infection prevention and control policies because it complements such policies – in particular, those that target including airborne infections.