Tzvetina Arsova Netzelmann; Elfriede Steffan; Liilia Lõhmus; Jury Kalikov; Anda Karnite, Alexander Leffers, Barbora Kucharova, Rayna Dimitrova, Cristina Fierbinteanu
The multi-city cross-sectional survey in 956 female SWs from seven EU countries collected behavioural (85-items interview) and epidemiological (HIV, Syphilis,HCV,HBV)data between March 2011 and February 2012. Participants were recruited in indoor, outdoor and IDU sex works scenes. The findings...
Tags: Policy makers, Sex workers, Health care professionals, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Care and support, Research, Prevention
ResultsinHealth, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands and Schorer for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
The document offers an updated inventory of STI and HIV trends among MSM in Europe from 1995-2010,a literature review of behavioural and psychosocial STI and HIV prevention interventions among MSM and a review of intervention evaluations. The report recognises that combined prevention...
Tags: , Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Epidemiology, Prevention, Research
WHO Regional Office for Europe, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNDP
This meeting report describes the main outcome of the regional consultation in relation to the HIV prevention, treatment, care and support needs of MSM and transgender people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; emphasizes the strong need and demand for creation of a regional coordination...
Tags: LGBTI, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Care and support, Treatment, Prevention
It provides technical guidance to countries on monitoring efforts to prevent and treat HIV infection among people who inject drugs and for setting ambitious but achievable national targets for scaling up towards universal access. In this revision efforts have been made to make the guide more...
Tags: People who use drugs (PUD), Global, Prevention, Treatment
The fact sheets present findings from the MSMGF’s recent report, “Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment for MSM,” featuring information on access to HIV services among MSM globally. The fact sheet also details barriers and facilitators that were found to impact access to HIV services for MSM,...
WHO (Christopher Dye, Thierry Mertens, Gottfried Hirnschall, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho, Robert D Newman, Mario C Raviglione, Lorenzo Savioli, Hiroki Nakatani)
Huge increases in funding for international health over the past two decades have led to a proliferation of donors, partnerships, and health organisations. Over the same period, the global burden of non-communicable diseases has increased absolutely and relative to communicable diseases. In this...
Tags: Health care professionals, Policy makers, WHO European region, Capacity building, Treatment, Prevention
Women may make up half the world’s population, but they do not share it equally. This is especially evident when it comes to HIV. Despite the many successes we have seen, women still face inequalities that will keep the AIDS response from reaching its full potential. Women out loud amplifies the...