Tools and Guidelines

This assessment tool comprises three modules that provide health-care professionals with a set of standardized questions that will enable them to gather country-based information to assess whether the privacy, confidentiality and security of personal health information are protected throughout the service delivery and data management settings in a particular country.

The Assessment Tool gathers the information required to assess the extent to which the confidentiality and security of identifiable and de-identified personal health information are protected.This publication is a workbook that relevant professionals can download and perform their assessment with.

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.

This orientation manual is the first of four volumes of a training toolkit that complement each other. The manual was developed to provide planners and managers working with HIV MSM programme prevention and support services with the necessary information to develop sympathetic, evidence-based and comprehensive HIV prevention and support services for MSM in the MENA region. The resource is useful to both experienced programme implementers as well as those who are beginning to plan new HIV prevention and care services for MSM.

These are the first WHO guidelines on testing for chronic Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and complement published guidance by WHO on the prevention, care and treatment of chronic HCV and HBV infection. These guidelines outline the public health approach to strengthening and expanding current testing practices for HBV and HCV infection, and are intended for use across age groups and populations. The primary audience for these guidelines are national programme managers in ministries of health and health-care providers in LMICs responsible for planning and implementing hepatitis testing, prevention, care and treatment services.

This manual is a resource for Facilitators who have attended a Facilitator Training Workshop on the delivery of the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens. In it you will find the contents of this 14-week parenting programme. This is a simple manual to use and provides a guide for you on how to deliver the programme each week. The main purpose of the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens is to help cultivate open, caring and trusting relationships between caregivers and their teenagers. Healthy and positive relations help parents to protect their adolescents against a variety of negative health and social outcomes.

The Regional Plan of Action (RPA) on Elimination of Violence against Children (EVAC) and the ASEAN Guidelines for a Non-violent Approach to Nurture, Care and Development of Children in All Settings (hence onwards shall be known as the ASEAN Guidelines, or Guidelines) are both pertaining to the elimination of violence against children. This Guidelines complements the ASEAN RPA on EVAC which serves as a blueprint or roadmap for AMS. The RPA is at the “macro” level, while the Guidelines is at the “micro” level i.e. the seven settings. This ASEAN Guidelines is one of the priorities under the area of prevention of the ASEAN RPA on EVAC. One of the steps to prevent and eventually eliminate violence against children is to adopt a non-violent approach to nurture, care and development of children in all settings.

This document is an update of guidance published on 7 June 2016 to provide advice on the prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus. The primary transmission route of Zika virus is via the Aedes mosquito. However, mounting evidence has shown that sexual transmission of Zika virus is possible and more common than previously assumed.1 This is of concern due to an association between Zika virus infection and adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes, including microcephaly, neurological complications and Guillain-Barré syndrome.

The Guidelines for the Management of Common and Opportunistic Infections among HIV-infected Infants, Children and Adolescents in Cambodia is a second edition and an important document to ensure the consistent and high quality treatment and care of HIV-infected children at all pediatric AIDS care sites in Cambodia. The guideline includes recommendations for the prevention and treatment of caring for children in Cambodia, supported by the latest information from international guidelines and primary literature. This guideline should be used as an important tool to assist pediatricians in providing high quality and standardized treatment to HIV-infected children aged less than 15 years in Cambodia.

The manual provides many case studies of the work of NHRIs on human rights issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. Some are short examples of activities undertaken. Others are longer descriptions of comprehensive programs. The case studies provide information on past and present activities of individual NHRIs and offer inspiration to all NHRIs for future projects. They assist NHRIs to learn from each other.