Guidelines on monitoring the impact of the HIV epidemic using population-based surveys

This publication is an update of the 2005 guidelines for measuring national HIV prevalence in populationbased surveys of the UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance. These guidelines are written for public health surveillance and programme officers responsible for monitoring the HIV epidemic in their country. The purpose of the revised guidelines is to assist programme officers in monitoring the HIV epidemic and the impact of the country’s AIDS response by designing and implementing populationbased surveys that include HIV infection, sexually transmitted infections and other bloodborne biomarkers.