International HIV/AIDS Alliance

The report outlines definitions and benefits of HIV/SRHR integration for key populations and presents some general lessons learned about good practice. It then addresses each of the selected key populations – describing issues to consider within integrated HIV/SRHR support, sharing key strategies and providing examples of integration in action.

This brief specifically focuses on the importance, but also challenges, of HIV/SRHR integration for sex workers. It is based on the experiences of a growing number of groups working with such communities to put integration into practice in a range of setting.

In order to be effective, HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes must address the broader factors that make people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Human rights abuses, stigma, discrimination and marginalisation stand in the way of people obtaining HIV/AIDS-related information, the means to prevent HIV infection, as well as care, treatment and support.

This brief has been produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in partnership with UNAIDS and follows on from the 2015 UNAIDS reference paper, Fast Tracking Combination Prevention.

This report provides the results of the baseline assessment study conducted in the beginning of CAHR project implementation in five countries, offers analysis of the obtained results, as well as recommendations for further research agenda and improvements of access to quality harm reduction services.

The Alliance Strategy (2016-2020) HIV, Health and Rights and theory of change describe ‘using a person-centred approach’ to increase access to quality HIV and health services and to realise the human rights of people living with HIV and others affected by HIV.

This strategy update responds to a number of critical external factors, in particular the evolution of the HIV epidemic and the momentum behind treatment scale-up, new global targets for HIV treatment, prevention and non-discrimination, the continued withdrawal of development financing from middle income countries, uneven - and in many countries shrinking - policy and fiscal space for civil society, human rights challenges, increased efforts focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the ambition to achieve inclusive development and equity.

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance’s theory of change sets out the difference we want to see in the world, and defines the logical sequence of changes we believe are needed to achieve our desired outcomes. It describes the assumptions behind our chosen strategies (as set out in HIV, Health and Rights: Sustaining Community), and the preconditions that need to be in place for these changes to occur. This theory of change is designed to help us better describe what we do, provide a tool for learning and reflection and evaluate our work.

This Good Practice Guide was developed to offer programme managers and service providers concrete implementation guidance and support as they seek to address adolescents’ needs more effectively.

This brief explores some of the key lessons learned from Link Up in terms of engaging and providing services to adolescents.