Resource Library

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection: A Toolkit for Health Service Providers, 2017

This toolkit provides health service providers, agencies and institutions with succinct information and guidance to safely and effectively deliver PrEP. The toolkit contains information on indications for PrEP and guidance on assessment, starting, monitoring and discontinuing PrEP. Templates of data collection tools are provided as annexures.

Safety, adherence, and HIV-1 seroconversion among women using the dapivirine vaginal ring (DREAM): an open-label, extension study

The Ring Study, a phase 3 trial, showed a favourable safety profile and a 31% HIV infection risk reduction for a vaginal ring containing 25 mg of dapivirine, compared with a placebo ring. This article outlines the DREAM study, which aimed to evaluate safety, adherence, and HIV incidence in those using the dapivirine vaginal ring…

Research

Tanzania National Guidelines for Comprehensive Package of HIV Interventions for Key & Vulnerable Populations, 2017

With the global 2030 goal to eliminate HIV, the Government of Tanzania is working to support those most in need of HIV prevention and treatment services. These national guidelines standardize the implementation of a comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment services for Key and Vulnerable Populations (KVP).

Normative Guidance/Policies

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

Social and Behaviour Change Communication Strategy for Sexual & Reproductive Health, Rights & HIV in Lesotho 2020-21 to 2022-23

Lesotho's Social and Behaviour Change Communication Strategy is a strategic response to the high levels of HIV and TB prevalence in the country that are exacerbated by the persistence of structural and sio-economic difficulties, such as poverty, unemployment, gender inequality and more. This strategy aims to address these issues.

Research, Normative Guidance/Policies

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

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among African Women: An opportunity for combination sexually transmitted infection/HIV prevention

The global epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in women demands new prevention approaches. This article outlines new strategies which are emerging that offer opportunities for research and program delivery of combination STI/HIV prevention .

Research

Synthesis of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Policies in MOSAIC Countries

This brief summarizes the PEP policy landscape, how to address barriers to policy and implementation, and provides recommendations to increase PEP uptake as part of HIV prevention. While it focuses on countries within the MOSAIC consortium, the findings are broadly applicable for ministries of health, implementing partners, providers, and potential PEP users alike.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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

Kenya Dapivirine Ring Rollout Scenarios

As Kenya considers introduction of the dapivirine ring, a new HIV prevention method for women, an outstanding question is how and where the ring should be introduced relative to oral PrEP. To support decision making, the PROMISE Consortium developed this analysis to consider several possible scenarios, defined by HIV incidence among women and adolescent girls…

Research, Service Delivery