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Updated recommendations on HIV prevention, infant diagnosis, antiretroviral initiation and monitoring

These guidelines provide new and updated recommendations on the use of point-of-care testing in children under 18 months of age and point-of-care tests to monitor treatment in people living with HIV; the treatment monitoring algorithm; and timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV who are being treated for tuberculosis.

Normative Guidance/Policies

CHARISMA Mobile: Developing a digital resource for empowerment counseling, community health clinic model for agency in relationships and safer microbicide adherence

CHARISMA is a PEPFAR- and USAID-funded empowerment counseling intervention designed to help women use oral pre-exposure prophylaxis and other antiretroviral-based HIV prevention technologies safely and effectively by addressing dynamics of their relationships with male partners, including exposure to intimate partner violence. The intervention, designed to be delivered by lay counselors, is being adapted into a…

Research, Service Delivery

Oral PrEP Training for Providers (French)

This modifiable training slide deck was developed with support from USAID and PEPFAR through the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project. The materials reflect WHO guidance as of 4 April 2022 and build on lessons learned from nearly ten years of oral PrEP implementation. The training is built so that it can be…

Service Delivery

Stakeholder conversations to inform delivery of new HIV prevention methods in Zimbabwe

Little is known about what is needed for health care providers to ensure adequate counseling on method choice, referral mechanisms, and supportive follow-up with regards to multiple biomedical HIV prevention methods. The goal of these conversations with stakeholders in Zimbabwe was to gain input on implementation considerations from provider and potential end-user perspectives, as well…

Step by Step Oral PrEP Liberia Guidelines, 2021

This national guide adapts WHO guidelines on oral PrEP to Liberia's local context.

Normative Guidance/Policies

Stakeholder conversations to inform delivery of multiple HIV prevention methods in Kenya

This report highlights findings from stakeholder conversations implemented in Kenya as part of the PROMISE Collaboration to gain input on implementation considerations for the introduction of the PrEP ring alongside oral PrEP and future inclusion of additional prevention methods for women

Research, Service Delivery

AGYW from Kenya and South Africa: The POWER demonstration project

This poster outlines results from the POWER demonstration project, including characterizing young women who initiate PrEP in Kenya and South Africa, determining PrEP persistence and patterns of use, assessing HIV incidence and drug resistance among PrEP seroconverters, and evaluating different PrEP delivery models.

Research, Service Delivery

MyPrEP Decision Support Tool Increases PrEP Persistence in AGYW Attending an Urban Primary Health Care Clinic in South Africa

A poster presented at HIVR4P 2021 explored the effectiveness of digital tools presented at primary care clinics in South Africa at increasing PrEP adherence.

Research

AGYW’s PrEP-user Journey During an Implementation Science Study in South Africa and Kenya

Journal article appearing in PLOS ONE examining adolescent girls and young women's experience with oral PrEP in South Africa and Kenya. PrEP uptake was facilitated when offered as part of an integrated sexual reproductive health service, but hampered by low awareness, stigma and misconceptions about PrEP in the community.

Research

A Pilot Evaluation of Expedited Partner Treatment and Partner HIV Self-testing Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Diagnosed with Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Kisumu, Kenya

This article describes a pilot study among young women receiving PrEP who were diagnosed with Chlamydia trachomatis or Neisseria gonorrhoeae which found high acceptability and uptake of expedited partner treatment and partner HIV self-testing.

Research, Testing