Resource Library

Dapivirine Ring Design Guide: Human-Centered Design Research to Increase Uptake and Use

USAID's Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact applied a human-centered design approach to better understand how IPM's dapivirine ring and other HIV prevention products could fit into young women's lives. This guide offers design concepts and tools to encourage and increase dapivirine ring uptake and use.

Demand Creation/Marketing

An Advocates’ Primer on Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir for PrEP

Results from two large-scale efficacy trials found that injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA), given every two months, was effective as a form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing HIV in gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender women who have sex with men, and cisgender women. CAB-LA was developed by ViiV Healthcare and…

Community/Advocacy

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of PrEP Providers Working with Adolescent Girls and Young Women

A review of completed, ongoing and planned studies exploring Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of PrEP Providers Working with Adolescent Girls and Young Women

Research

Health Care Providers’ Attitudes toward and Experiences Delivering Oral PrEP to Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

This article describes the results of a cross-sectional qualitative study, interviewing providers at public, private, and nongovernmental health facilities in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe offering PrEP to explore providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering PrEP to AGYW.

Research, Service Delivery

Health care providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering oral PrEP to adolescent girls and young women: Kenya technical brief

This technical brief describes the results of a cross-sectional qualitative study, interviewing providers at public, private, and nongovernmental health facilities in Kenya offering PrEP to explore providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering PrEP to AGYW.

Research, Service Delivery

Health care providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering oral PrEP to adolescent girls and young women: Zimbabwe technical brief

This technical brief describes the results of a cross-sectional qualitative study, interviewing providers at public, private, and nongovernmental health facilities in Zimbabwe offering PrEP to explore providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering PrEP to AGYW.

Research, Service Delivery

Dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention: modelling health outcomes, drug resistance and cost-effectiveness

A vaginal ring containing dapivirine is effective for HIV prevention as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The authors of this article evaluated the potential epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of dapivirine vaginal ring PrEP among 22- to 45-year-old women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Research, Service Delivery

Ring Backgrounder

What is the dapivirine ring? How does it work? Is it safe to use? These are all questions that this Dapivirine Ring backgrounder by the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) answers.

Community/Advocacy

Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach

These consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring bring together existing and new clinical and programmatic recommendations across different ages, populations and settings, bringing together all relevant WHO guidance on HIV produced since 2016. It serves as an update to the previous edition of the consolidated guidelines on HIV.

Normative Guidance/Policies, Service Delivery

WHO recommends the Dapivirine vaginal ring as a new choice for HIV prevention for women at substantial risk of HIV infection

This article announces the WHO's recommendation that the dapivirine vaginal ring may be offered as an additional prevention choice for women at substantial risk of HIV infection as part of combination prevention approaches.

Community/Advocacy, Normative Guidance/Policies