Tools and Guidelines

This Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Quality Assurance Tool offers health care providers, facilities, and program planners a straightforward way to start, strengthen or expand post-GBV health services through the use of evidence-based standards. 

This operational guidance is based on a consultation convened by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and the Emergency Nutrition Network in Geneva in September 2016, which brought together a cross-section of senior-level participants from United Nations agencies, government, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and other agencies working in nutrition and HIV in emergencies. This document sets out basic principles related to HIV and infant feeding in emergency settings, and the actions that government and other stakeholders can take to prepare for emergencies.

Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free is a collaborative framework to accelerate the end of the AIDS epidemic among children, adolescents and young women by 2020. Every child and adolescent living with HIV should have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). The AIDS Free component of the framework has the specific goal of ensuring 95% of all children and adolescents living with HIV have access to lifelong ART by the end of 2018. These efforts will need to be sustained until 2020, when it is estimated that treating 95% of all children and adolescents living with HIV will require providing ART to 1.4 million children (aged 0-14). and 1 million adolescents (aged 15-19).

Progress in reducing the tuberculosis (TB) burden in the Western Pacific Region has been remarkable, with millions of lives saved and drastic reductions in prevalence and mortality in the past two decades. Throughout the Region, national tuberculosis programmes (NTPs) have expanded the basic TB services package and centred its focus on the most cost-effective, high-impact interventions at little or no cost to patients. Furthermore, accurate epidemiological information and programmatic evidence have provided a rich base for informed decision-making.

In the past decade, national programmes and donor-funded projects have made great progress in reaching people living with HIV with life-saving treatment in countries across the globe. Measuring success of these initiatives requires strong monitoring and evaluation systems that produce high-quality data. Efforts to ensure data quality, therefore, are not singular events occurring randomly. Rather, these processes need to become institutionalized as part of all routine data management processes. The aim of this tool is to help countries that are planning to undertake rapid and robust data quality assessment (DQA) of national and partner data quality with a particular emphasis on HIV treatment while improving and supporting patient monitoring systems to improve data quality and use.

Nine out of 10 people living with HIV are adults in their most productive years. In the most affected countries, HIV takes a direct toll on markets, investments, services and education. Ending AIDS is everybody’s business and will need collaboration between both the public sector and the private sector. Ending AIDS by 2030 needs effective action on: HIV testing, prevention, treatment and care, human rights solutions-oriented approaches by the business community are required in each of these areas.

The INSPIRE handbook: action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children explains in detail how to choose and implement interventions that will fit your needs and context. The seven strategy-specific chapters address the:

• Implementation and enforcement of laws
• Norms and values
• Safe environments
• Parent and caregiver support
• Income and economic strengthening
• Response and support services
• Education and life skills.

The handbook concludes with a summary of INSPIRE’s implementation and impact indicators, drawn from the companion INSPIRE indicator guidance and results framework.

The toolkit was developed under the umbrella of the Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations initiative to address some of the remaining challenges in developing HIV drugs for children and to serve as a global standard for accelerating high-quality research and development in this field. It provides an opportunity to capitalize on best practices and to set standards that enable drugs and formulations to be developed and introduced more rapidly. The aim of this toolkit is to facilitate faster, more efficient and focused development of new formulations for the effective treatment of infants, children and adolescents living with HIV by synthesizing key considerations for different stages of the drug development process.

This handbook aims to facilitate the active involvement of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Global Fund/Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Country Coordination Mechanism (GFATM CCM). It outlines basic values and principles, providing practical information and tools which can be adapted to national contexts. It stresses the ongoing importance of PLHIV led communication, coordination and consultation, so that people most affected by the three diseases can continually make their voices heard and weigh in on important issues. The ultimate goal of PLHIV representation on CCMs is to ensure that GFATM financed programs are efficient, impactful and sustainable.

Globally, law enforcement officers have grown increasingly frustrated with the limited effectiveness of traditional drug enforcement approaches that find them arresting or imprisoning individuals without significant impact on illicit drug trade or use. This is a briefing for law enforcement personnel around the world on how to incorporate, support, and create space for approaches that aim to increase public safety and health, reduce harm to people who use drugs, and provide law enforcement alternatives to common punitive models.