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The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education: global status report
Drawing on multiple data sources, this Global Status Report provides a snapshot of how countries are advancing on their journeys towards school-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) across the world. CSE is central to children and young people’s well-being, equipping them with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy and responsible choices in their lives. This body of work…
Declaration on Sexual Pleasure
The Declaration on Sexual Pleasure by was originally proclaimed at the 24th World Congress of Sexual Health in Mexico City in 2019 by the World Association for Sexual Health.
The final version of the Declaration was ratified by the General Assembly at the 25th World Congress of Sexual Health in Cape Town, South Africa in 2021.
Sex Work & Mental Health: Overview of factors impacting sex workers' mental health and access to services in Europe and Central Asia
This briefing paper was developed as part of the pilot program aimed at supporting the mental health of sex workers. With the support of ILGA-Europe, ICRSE (now ESWA) offered a series of workshops and events to give sex workers’ activists in Europe and Central Asia an opportunity to discuss issues related to mental health, learn how to identify and address mental health crises in our community…
Harm Reduction Key Principles in Homeless Services
The Key Principles of Harm Reduction are an innovative set of tools developed through the HR4Homelessness Project. The innovation lies in their capacity to translate existing experiences and knowledge on Harm Reduction into actionable guidance through an open, iterative and evolving framework.
The Key Principles aim to contribute to improving and transforming the services that shape access to…
Перспективные препараты против ВИЧ в 2021 году: Новые препараты в разработке
В данном отчете рассматриваются достижения в разработке против ВИЧ в 2021 году.
Многие из разрабатываемых соединений потенциально могут быть использованы как для лечения, так и для профилактики. Кроме того, впервые за многие годы большая часть текущих разработок относится к новым классам препаратов, которые могут быть использованы для людей, не получающих лечения, не имеющих опыта лечения и…
Briefing Paper: Mental Health of People Living with HIV
This paper provides recommendations based on the results of research conducted by the European AIDS Treatment Group, part of its “HIV & Mental Health” project, as well as consultations and community feedback.
The briefing paper is available in English and Russian.
A Deadly Divide: TB Commitments vs. TB Realities. A Communities Report on Progress Towards the UN Political Declaration on the Fight Against TB and a Call to Action to Close the Gaps in TB Targets
This report has been developed by the Stop TB Partnership Communities, Developing Country NGO and Developed Country NGO Delegations to the Board through consultation with their constituents and other key stakeholders from over 60 countries. This report documents how - – two years on from the United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB and the Political Declaration on the Fight Against Tuberculosis –…
THE 2020 REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
This report sets out the violation of rights experienced by people living with HIV in Turkey in 2020 based on data reported to the Pozitif-iz Association.
Unlike the reports launched previously, “The 2020 Report on Human Rights Violations” experienced by people living with HIV in Turkey additionally includes the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human rights violations.
Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorites
The Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI) report examines the laws and regulations that affect the lives of LGBTI people in 16 countries—Bangladesh, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Uruguay. These countries represent different geographic areas, income levels, and…
Breaking barriers in HIV: Action for legislators to address LGBT+ inequities
A new report is based on two private roundtables the Global Equality Caucus, in partnership with Gilead hosted to discuss inequities in HIV healthcare that LGBT+ people face and what elected representatives should be doing to push for improvements in theprovision of care.
The report includes ten recommendations for legislators and others to take forward, including repealing or modernising…
positive stimmen 2.0 - results of the PLHIV Stigma Index 2.0 in Germany
Brochure with the results of the PLHIV Stigma Index 2.0 in Germany
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the HIV response
UNAIDS presents an inforgraphic on the effects COVID-19 pandemic had on the HIV response. The infographic includes the topics of treatment access, prevention programmes, stigma and discrimination, etc
Civil society involvement in harm reduction drug policy: reflections on the past, expectations for the future
A range of civil society organisations (CSOs) such as drug user groups, non-governmental/third sector organisations and networks of existing organisations, seek to shape the development of drugs policy at national and international levels. However, their capacity to do so is shaped by the contexts in which they operate nationally and internationally. The aim of this paper is to explore the lived…
Global Fund Results Report 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the fight against HIV, TB and malaria in 2020, according to a new report released by the Global Fund. The Results Report shows that while some progress was made, key programmatic results have declined for the first time in the history of the Global Fund.
HIV testing is everyone’s business. Toolkit to enhance HIV testing in people with indicator conditions
This short guide is a toolkit to support healthcare professionals, commissioners and health service planners increase HIV testing in people presenting in their services with HIV indicator conditions. It will provide answers to some of the regular questions which arise when discussing indicator condition testing including:
• what HIV and HIV indicator conditions are
• the evidence base and current…
Key Populations' Values and Preferences for HIV, Hepatitis and STI services: A Qualitative Study
In 2021 INPUD collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) Department for Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes on a global qualitative study examining the values and preferences of key populations, including people who inject drugs, for HIV, Hepatitis and STIs services. The findings of this study will inform the update of the WHO 2016 Consolidated Guidelines for HIV prevention,…
First Global Report on Sex Worker Rights Defenders at Risk
Front Line Defenders launched the first ever investigation into targeted violence, threats and attacks against sex worker rights defenders on 12 August 2021.
The report features case studies, testimonies, security analysis, and protection requests from human rights defenders, documented on collaborative research trips conducted by Front Line Defenders researchers and HRDs. Between 2017 and 2020,…
Lgbti+ Health Equity. A Global Report of 50 Fast-Track Cities
The study included assessments of 50 cities and municipalities from four geographic regions, as well as 275 key informant interviews with people involved in LGBTI+ health issues at the community level who completed an online survey.
Among the study’s revelations was the fact that no region came close to perfect on LGBTI+ health equity indicators, including quality of life, access to care, or…
HIV Continuum of care: Monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia (2020 progress report)
This progress report of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is one in a series of thematic reports based on information submitted by reporting countries in 2020 on monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS.
In 2020, 40 out of 55 countries in Europe and Central Asia provided the latest available data on all four stages of the…
Global progress report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2021
This report provides accountability for the 3 Global Health Sector Strategies (2016-2021) on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and the STIs. The report assesses the impact, progress and gaps, and identifies actions to improve impact. The report also provides new data to assess the achievement of the SDGs targets and gaps towards the Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13) targets and a decade towards…
Reports on Gender: The Law of Inclusion & Practices of Exclusion
The first part, of the report “Law of Inclusion”, investigates how the concept of gender is enshrined in international human rights law (IHRL) and concludes that gender identity and expression are protected thereunder, and that gen- der-based approaches and intersectionality provide a sharp lens for analysing the root causes of violence and discrimination based on SOGI. They enable the analysis…
“Promoting the Health and Rights of Gay Men Worldwide: A Handbook for All Health Professionals.”
The handbook by MPact draws from emerging research and clinical guidance on the health of gay men and will help build cultural and clinical competency among healthcare providers serving gay communities.
This resource, centers on a sex-positive, harm reduction framework, focusing on health as a basic human right with sexual health as only one component of health more broadly.
Global Investment in HIV Cure Research and Development in 2020
In 2014, the HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Resource Tracking Working Group and AVAC began a collaboration with the International AIDS Society’s (IAS) Towards an HIV Cure initiative. AVAC, Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the IAS brought together a group to review and allocate grants towards HIV cure research and analyze data on global funding. The working group released a report in July 2021,…
Follow-Up Report on the Continued Impact of Sars-Cov-2/Covid-19 Pandemic on Member Organisations within AIDS Action Europe Network
Last year AAE conducted a survey among its member organizations about the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on their sevices and finances and published "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Report" The current report "Follow-up Report on the Continued Impact of Sars-Cov-2/Covid-19 Pandemic on Member Organisations within AAE Network" shows how the situation has developed for our member and partner …
Manifesto to Align HIV Prevention Research with Trans and Gender-Diverse Realities
No Data No More: Manifesto to Align HIV Prevention Research with Trans and Gender Diverse Realities, written and informed by trans and gender-diverse (TGD) global activists, with support and solidarity from AVAC, offers practical and essential priorities for demonstrable and viable HIV interventions for TGD people. The manifesto reflects the urgent need for peer-led HIV prevention research with…
Chemsex and Harm Reduction for Gay Men and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men
Chemsex, which has come to the attention of public health professionals in the past decade, involves both sexual and drug-related high risk behaviours such as multiple sexual partners, the use of multiple drugs together, and injecting drug use.
Sex Work and Migration in CEECA
This briefing paper by the Sex Workers’ Advocacy Network (SWAN) explores the situation and needs of migrant sex workers in the Central, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia region (CEECA). It aims at better understanding the movements of migrant sex workers; their experiences in accessing services and support; the human rights violations they face and what the membership believe would make a…
Civil Society Monitoring of Harm Reduction in Europe 2020 Executive Summary
The second civil society-led monitoring re-port produced by Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN) aims at enriching the information and knowledge base of harm reduction interventions in Europe from the viewpoint of civil society organisations. More than one hundred organisations and individuals from 34 European countries have contributed to the collection of data. The executive…
2021 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update — Confronting inequalities — Lessons for pandemic responses from 40 years of AIDS
The UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2021 highlights evidence that people living with HIV are more vulnerable to COVID-19, but that widening inequalities are preventing them from accessing COVID-19 vaccines and HIV services. The report shows how COVID-19 lockdowns and other restrictions have badly disrupted HIV testing—in many countries this has led to steep drops in HIV diagnoses, referrals to care…
HIV and Migration: Understanding the barriers faced by people born abroad living with HIV in the UK
This report from the National Aids Trust supported by Trust for London, interviewed migrants living with HIV in the UK about their experience of living with HIV in the UK. The report found migrants are being left behind in the UK’s response to HIV, despite being disproportionately affected by HIV.
This report explores these and makes recommendations to improve the health outcomes and quality of…