Tools and Guidelines

With scaling-up of HIV and other health services in low- and middle-income countries, an increasing amount of personally identifiable health information is being collected at health facilities and stored in data repositories at local, regional and national levels. Countries need to protect the confidentiality and security of identifiable and de-identified personal health information, and this can be accomplished in part through the existence and implementation of relevant privacy laws, policies and programmes.

Based on privacy, confidentiality and security principles an Assessment Tool was developed to assess in country the extent that the confidentiality and security of personal health information is protected at facility and data warehouse/repository levels and whether national guidelines exist including privacy laws. A Manual on the use of the Assessment Tool has been produced and is available below. 

These guidelines are intended for experienced producers of cost data who may know less about how to cost TB services. This manual is TB-specific and allows costing work to be adapted to context and purpose. While this guidance can be used for those who have not costed health services previously, where this is the case we would advise using the Reference Case as a complementary resource.

Self-testing enables people to test themselves for HIV conveniently and in private. This new testing option may encourage more people to test themselves who previously held back from visiting a testing facility. Community- and faith-based organizations engaged in HIV prevention and care are learning about HIV self-testing in order to decide how best to use this approach within their work. This brief answers some frequently asked questions.

This Checklist supports the in-country implementation of the 2017 WHO and UNAIDS Consolidated guideline on the SRHR of women living with HIV. To guarantee the guideline’s effective implementation and fulfil its ground-breaking women-centred spirit and principles, its uptake must include the meaningful engagement of women living with HIV in all their diversity. This guideline was developed with engagement from communities of women living with HIV throughout its development, publication and dissemination.  In line with this collaborative process, it discusses implementation issues that laws, policies, health, social and other relevant initiatives and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights. The overall objective of this Checklist is to support women living with HIV and community activists who care about the rights of women living with HIV to guarantee effective implementation of the WHO and UNAIDS Consolidated guideline on the SRHR of women living with HIV.

This toolkit focuses on preventing HIV among key populations – sex workers, people who inject drugs, transgender people, and gay men and other men who have sex with men. Globally, key populations are 10-24 times more at risk of contracting HIV than adults in the general population.3 In 2015, infections among key populations accounted for 36% of all new infections.

These ASEAN VAWG Data Guidelines bring together leading guidance on the collection of the three main types of VAWG data – administrative data, prevalence data and costing data. These guidelines offer a special emphasis on administrative data on VAWG as little guidance is currently available. In addition, the guidelines provide an overview of the current studies and data available in ASEAN Member States and internationally recognized research and methodologies. The guidelines underline ethical and safety considerations surrounding VAWG data collection, including issues of data security and sharing.

The overall goal of this guideline is to assist national governments and national and international partners to improve the design, implementation, performance and evaluation of CHW programmes, contributing to the progressive realization of universal health coverage. This guideline is primarily focused on CHWs (as defined by the International Labour Organization through its International Standard Classification of Occupations), but its relevance and applicability include also other types of community-based health workers. The recommendations of this guideline are of relevance to health systems of countries at all levels of socioeconomic development.

Digital platforms have enabled us to expand our reach and to engage girls and gatekeepers in vibrant and exciting ways. They also provide up-to-date and detailed data that can lead to rich insights into girls behaviours and opinions. But these new channels bring with them a host of new safeguarding challenges. For this reason, over the past few years, Girl Effect has been modernising its approach to the safeguarding of children and young people.

This framework is intended to be a brief guide for countries and implementers that are planning, starting or scaling up HIVST implementation. It provides key considerations for: 1) preparing for HIVST; 2) implementing HIVST; 3) monitoring and optimizing HIVST implementation. When planning and implementing in the real world, many of the steps detailed in this framework may occur concurrently or in a different order. Therefore, it is recommended that this framework be used flexibly and adapted according to specific contexts and epidemics.