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Breaking the Cycle of HIV Transmission: A Human Centered Design Approach to Reach Adolescent Girls and Young Women

One of the key questions that this resource answers is why so many HIV prevention interventions are ineffective with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). Here we outline two locally led project phases that integrate human-centered design methodologies to answer this question and others.

Demand Creation/Marketing

South Africa’s COP 2021

The goal of South Africa's 2021 Country Operational Plan is to maintain progress from 2020 in key areas related to health promotion such as refining efforts to eliminate policy barriers, insitutionalizing client- centered services, helping the country achieve 95-95-95, and spotlighting HIV prevention and treatment access for all populations in need.

Monitoring & Evaluation Plan for the National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB, & STIs, 2017-22

South Africa's M&E Plan builds on achievements in the fight against HIV/AIDS from the past and continues to lay the groundwork for collecting vital information for this effort into the future. It informs how to improve and scale up service delivery and implementing evidence-based interventions. This Plan also outlines the key indicators, their definitions, data…

Guidance for Providing Informed-choice Counseling on Sexual Health for Women Interested in Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

This guidance for healthcare providers can help promote informed decision making on sexual health for women who have expressed interest in using PrEP as part of their HIV risk-reduction strategy.

Service Delivery

Plan 4 PrEP: Step 5: Facility Readiness Assessment

Service Delivery

Health Care Providers as Agents of Change: Integrating PrEP with other sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women

Providing integrated HIV PrEP and sexual reproductive health (SRH) care is difficult for many healthcare providers. They face many barriers. Successul integration will require interation and adaptation. O'Malley et al. investigate the structural and motivational barriers that healthcare providers face in providing integrated care to adolescent girls and young women (AGYW).

Research, Service Delivery

A community-based mobile clinic model delivering PrEP for HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa

This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of providing PrEP to adolescent girls and young women via a community-based mobile health clinic known as the Tutu Teen Truck in Cape Town, South Africa

Research, Service Delivery

Comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in South Africa

This study compares the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of providing antiretroviral therapy vs PrEP in South Africa

Financing & Costing

Estimating the cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce HIV-1 and HSV-2 incidence in HIV-serodiscordant couples in South Africa

This study estimates the cost-effectiveness of daily oral PrEP, with a protective effect against the herpes simplex virus as well as HIV, among HIV serodifferent couples in South Africa

Financing & Costing

Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention: Modeling health outcomes, drug resistance and cost‐effectiveness

This paper evaluates the potential epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of dapivirine vaginal ring PrEP among 22- to 45-year-old women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Financing & Costing, Research