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Transmission, prevention and testing

Covers a range of topics to do with transmission, prevention and testing of HIV and AIDS, including: mother to child transmission; sexually transmitted infections/diseases; sexual and reproductive health; testing and counselling.

Latest Documents

Re-strategizing the MSM Response: Data for Action
A. Reddy 2013
As the epidemic rises in the Asia Pacific region, the UNAIDS Data Hub have prepared the following presentation providing an overview of the issues, commitments and areas for action. The regional profile presents data collated from pub...
Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting 2013: Construction of Core Indicators for Monitoring the 2011 UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
2013
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to national AIDS programmes and partners actively involved in the country response to AIDS on use of core indicators to measure and report on the national response.
Emerging HIV Risk in Papua New Guinea.
A. Kelly 2013
PNG’s HIV epidemic is predominately driven through heterosexual transmission. That said, other modes of transmission observed include vertical transmission and male-to-male sex. A few sporadic cases of HIV have been diagnosed whe...
Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of ...
MSMGF Technical Bulletin: Treatment as Prevention (TasP)
2012
This technical bulletin gives an overview to what treatment as prevention (TasP). Treatment as prevention (TasP) is a HIV prevention intervention where treating an HIV-positive person with antiretroviral medication is used to reduce t...
AVAC Report 2012 - Achieving the End: One Year and Counting
J. bass 2012
This advocacy report claims that the fight against HIV has reached a tipping point. Five priority points must be addressed to carry this through: 1) End confusion about “combination prevention” 2) Narrow the gaps in the trea...
MSMGF Technical Bulletin: Systemic (Oral) Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV, 2012
This technical bulletin focuses on HIV prevention and treatment strategies for gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) Focusing on systemic pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Systemic pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), otherwise...
MSMGF Technical Bulletin: Topical (Microbicide) Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV, 2012
This technical bulletin focuses on Topical PrEP is the use of a microbicide—a gel, lubricant, douche, or enema infused with antiretrovirals (ARVs)—applied to the vagina and/or rectum in order to prevent sexual transmission o...
How effective are different interventions to prevent transmission of HIV amongst injecting drug users?
L. Degenhardt; B. Mathers; P. Vickerman / The Lancet, 2010
HIV can spread rapidly between people who inject drugs (through injections and sexual transmission), and potentially the virus can pass to the wider community (by sexual transmission). The authors of this article: summarise ...
Promoting the health and rights of people in Myanmar living with and affected by HIV
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2012
In Myanmar, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance focuses on promoting the health and rights of people living with, and most affected by, HIV. This includes men who have sex with men and female sex workers. The Alliance suppo...