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UNAIDS Terminology Guidelines - 2015
Language shapes beliefs and may influence behaviours. Considered use of appropriate language has the power to strengthen the global response to the AIDS epidemic. That is why the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is pleased to make these guidelines to Preferred terminology freely available for use by staff members, colleagues in the Programme’s 11 Cosponsoring organizations and…
Prevent HIV, test and treat all - WHO support for country impact: Progress report 2016
The global HIV epidemic claimed fewer lives in 2015 than at any point in almost two decades, and fewer people became newly infected with HIV than in any year since 1991. The list of countries on the brink of eliminating new HIV infections among children keeps growing. A massive expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced the global number of people dying from HIV-related causes to about…
Consulting MSM about HIV and drug consume
Number 4 of the German HIVreport is dedicated to the consulting MSM about HIV and drug consume. There is information about the basic research knowledge; methodology of the motivating conversation; behaviourist approach to this issue; guidelines and recommendations for consultants.
HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2015
This ECDC report, prepared jointly with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, presents data on HIV and AIDS for the whole European Region, including the EU and EEA countries. Analyses are provided for the EU and EEA region, and also by geographical/epidemiological division of the WHO European Region.
Although HIV is preventable through effective public health measures, significant HIV transmission…
Your Voice: A Guide to Disclosure and HIV
HIV Scotland worked collaboratively with NAT (National AIDS Trust) to produce a suite of three distinct but complementary guides relating to disclosure (‘Your Voice’), confidentiality (‘Your Choice’) and rights (‘Your Rights’) in Scotland.
These guides were created with the aim of answering many of commonly asked questions that people living with HIV had in relation to these three challenging…
Your Choice: A guide to confidentiality and HIV in Scotland
HIV Scotland worked collaboratively with NAT (National AIDS Trust) to produce a suite of three distinct but complementary guides relating to disclosure (‘Your Voice’), confidentiality (‘Your Choice’) and rights (‘Your Rights’) in Scotland.
These guides were created with the aim of answering many of commonly asked questions that people living with HIV had in relation to these three challenging…
Your Rights. A guide to human rights and HIV
HIV Scotland worked collaboratively with NAT (National AIDS Trust) to produce a suite of three distinct but complementary guides relating to disclosure (‘Your Voice’), confidentiality (‘Your Choice’) and rights (‘Your Rights’) in Scotland.
These guides were created with the aim of answering many of commonly asked questions that people living with HIV had in relation to these three challenging…
Get on the Fast-Track — the life-cycle approach to HIV
In this report, UNAIDS is announcing that 18.2 million people now have access to HIV treatment. The Fast-Track response is working. Increasing treatment coverage is reducing AIDS-related deaths among adults and children. But the life-cycle approach has to include more than just treatment. Tuberculosis (TB) remains among the commonest causes of illness and death among people living with HIV of all…
Understanding the impact of smartphone applications on STI/HIV prevention among men who have sex with men in the EU/EEA
This ECDC report, produced in collaboration with the Terrence Higgins Trust, looks into the role of smartphone applications directed at men who have sex with men (MSM) and how this affects the HIV epidemic across the EU/EEA. This refers to apps both as a tool for MSM to find partners and also as a possible platform for outreach work in the field of HIV prevention and sexual health.
From Shadows to Light: Advocacy for Children of HIV-Affected Key Populations
For many years now, the children of HIV-affected key populations—sex workers, transgender people, people who use drugs and gay men and other men who have sex with men—have remained in the shadows. Emerging information and anecdotal reports indicate that these children require special attention because of they may be negatively affected as result of either direct or associative relationship with…
Prevention Gap Report
This report by UNAIDS reveals concerning trends in new HIV infections among adults. The Prevention gap report shows that while significant progress is being made in stopping new HIV infections among children (new HIV infections have declined by more than 70% among children since 2001 and are continuing to decline), the decline in new HIV infections among adults has stalled. The report shows that…
PrEP Access in Europe
This report seeks to provide a snapshot of PrEP access and uptake across the European region based on what HIV organisations and community networks have witnessed so far. PEI retrieved this information about PrEP access by putting out a call to all members of EATG, a network with reach across all 53 countries in the European region.
Affordability of Medicines and Diagnostics
The Steering Committee of AAE identified affordability of medications as one of the key issues in the WHO Europe region. As part of our work on affordability, AAE prepared a training manual on affordability of medicines and diagnostics. This manual will be used as basis for training of activist and community members from the WHO Europe region from 2016.
Hepatitis C in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Civil Society Response to the Epidemic
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of key aspects of the hepatitis C (HCV) epidemic and response in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). It also outlines tools and activities for civil society organizations (CSOs) and community-based groups working on expanding access to HCV treatment in the region. Right now, there is a strong global movement towards elimination of the HCV…
Action plan for the health sector response to viral hepatitis in the WHO European Region
This is the first Action plan for the health sector response to viral hepatitis in the WHO European Region. It is aligned with both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Health 2020, the European policy for health and well-being. This new Action plan addresses all five hepatitis viruses with a particular focus on HBV and HCV and adapts the Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral…
HIV-Online prevention for men having sex with men
This is the presentation of HIV prevention campaign launched by Die AIDS-Hilfen Austria
This HIV prevention campaign is focused on the smartphone behavour of the target group. It addresses MSM with an increased risk of infection who hardly use the services of the Austrian HIV-NGOs. The target group is reached virtually and informed about prevention, testing and counselling services of the…
Раннее Начало Лечения
This brochure briefly describes the treatment of HIV, and provides the reader with information on what are the latest trends of the early treatment of HIV infection with antiretroviral therapy (ARV), and what the prospects for this treatment.
Hepatitis C among drug users in Europe: epidemiology, treatment and prevention
Hepatitis C among drug users in Europe: epidemiology, treatment and prevention provides a timely contribution to raising awareness of the hepatitis C epidemic in Europe and the opportunities now opening up to tackle this problem decisively. A state of the art review of the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Europe and an overview of the way preventive measures are currently…
It's Good To Know
This leaflet is the part of Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction (HA-REACT).
Leaflets and posters for people who use drugs (PWUD) have been prepared by the Work package 4 “Testing and linkage to care” to promote rapid HIV and HCV tests in low threshold facilities in Latvia and Hungary. These client centred information materials should motivate PWUD to get tested…
Using drugs reducing risks - Improving access to healthcare for people who use drugs in Tajikistan
BRIDGING THE GAPS: an international HIV Programme on health and rights for LGBT people, sex workers and people who use drugs. Video from the programme on improving access to healthcare for people who use drugs in Tajikistan
In Tajikistan an estimated 25,000 people are using drugs. Around 60% of injecting drug users are living with HIV. However, there is still a big information gap regarding…
STOP Homophobia beat HIV
Video on fighting against the anti-gay propaganda law in Kyrgyzstan from the Bridging the Gaps Programme.
The Bridging the Gaps project in Kyrgyzstan is aimed at improving the position of LGBT, amongst others by reducing the HIV risks facing LGBT people through increasing knowledge, changing attitudes and improving health services. This will reduce HIV prevalence among these groups and improve…
Today’s youth, tomorrow’s key populations?
BRIDGING THE GAPS: an international HIV Programme on health and rights for LGBT people, sex workers and people who use drugs. Video from the programme on supporting adolescents at risk of HIV in Ukraine.
Right to health - Access denied (Access to HIV services for migrants with irregular status in ten European countries) - poster
In the 2014-2015 project phase the European HIV Legal Forum produced a comparative legal report based on legal survey from 10 European countries (France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain and the United Kingdom). Based on the legal report, EHLF also produced an abstract for the EUPHA 6th European Conference on Migrant Health (Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2016)…
Bridging the Gaps: Health and rights of key populations: engaging underserved key population in Kyrgyztan: what works?
Within the framework of the programme “Bridging the Gaps: Health and rights of key populations”, operational research was conducted among people who inject drugs (PWID), sex workers (SW) and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, as well as outreach workers and managers of local partner organisations of Bridging the Gaps and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (…
Transgender people and HIV. Policy brief
This technical brief summarizes essential information and existing WHO recommendations for HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care among transgender populations.
Секс. Такой же, как и раньше.
The primary audience of this brochure are homo- and bisexual men with HIV. The publication will be useful for HIV-negative partners in discordant homosexual couples, as well as for professionals working in the public and governmental support services for people with HIV. This 80-page illustrated booklet want to help in finding sulution of problems in the context of HIV and dealing with the health…
European Drug Report 2016: Trends and Developments
The Trends and Developments report presents a top-level overview of the drug phenomenon in Europe, covering drug supply, use and public health problems as well as drug policy and responses. Together with the online Statistical Bulletin, Country Overviews and Perspectives on Drugs, it makes up the 2016 European Drug Report package.
The health risks of high-potency products, the continued emergence…
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030
The document consists of new goals, targets and commitments of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. Countries have agreed to a historic and urgent agenda to accelerate efforts towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The Political Declaration provides a global mandate to Fast-Track the AIDS response over the next five years.
As Member States begin to…
GLOBAL AIDS UPDATE 2016
UNAIDS recommends a Fast-Track approach: substantially increasing and frontloading investment over the next five years to accelerate scale-up and establish the momentum required to overcome within 15 years one of the greatest public health challenges in this generation.
The latest UNAIDS data, covering 160 countries, demonstrate both the enormous gains already made and what can be achieved in the…
Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention for Women and their Babies: A treatment literacy guide for pregnant women and mothers living with HIV
Women living with HIV from eight countries have shared their expertise to shape the content and design of the guide and it was formulated in direct response to a call from communities for up-to-date, evidence-based resources.
Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention for Women and their Babies: A treatment literacy guide for pregnant women and mothers living with HIV is intended for use by networks…