This guideline responds to requests from organizations, institutions and individuals for guidance which consolidates existing recommendations specific to women living with HIV along with new recommendations and good practice statements. It is expected to support front-line health-care providers, programme managers and public health policy-makers around ...

Reaching people with undiagnosed HIV The sexual partners and drug injecting partners of people diagnosed with HIV infection have an increased probability of also being HIV-positive. Assisted HIV partner notification services are a simple and effective way to reach these partners, many of whom are undiagnosed and ...

Reaching people with undiagnosed HIV HIV self-testing (HIVST) is an empowering and innovative way to reach more people with HIV and help achieve the first of the United Nation’s 90–90–90 targets – for 90% of all people with HIV to know their status by 2020. Expanded ...

This document presents new WHO recommendations and guidance on: 1. HIV self-testing 2. Partner notification To achieve the United Nations (UN) 90–90–90 global HIV targets – and specifically the first target of diagnosing 90% of all people with HIV – the World Health Organization (WHO) released the Consolidated ...

In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 4.9 million people were living with HIV in 2012.  Although the rate of new HIV infections has decreased over the last decade, there are still an estimated 353 000 new infections each year in the region. HIV treatment ...

Health systems and services depend critically on the size, skills and commitment of the health workforce. It is now evident that in many low- and middle-income countries, meeting key Millennium Development Goal targets, specifically those relating to health, requires a significant increase in the numbers ...

First generation surveillance relied solely on data on AIDS cases and some sentinel studies on HIV prevalence. In 2000, a new strategy named second generation surveillance (SGS) was promoted to tailor surveillance systems to the epidemic state of a country (1). More specifically, the strategy ...

People living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are 29 times (26-31) more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) disease as people without HIV and living in the same country. TB is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV, accounting for one in ...

Early initiation of ART in patients with CD4+ T-cell counts of less than 50 per cubic millimeter increased AIDS-free survival. Deferral of the initiation of ART to the first 4 weeks of the continuation phase of tuberculosis therapy in those with higher CD4+ T-cell counts ...

The international community has committed to ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 – an ambitious target of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015. Interim targets have been established for 2020. ...

With this update of the consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection, WHO, for the first time, recommends that all people living with HIV be provided with antiretroviral therapy (ART). This will bring us one step closer to ...

HIV testing is the gateway to HIV prevention, treatment, care and other support services. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have endorsed global goals to achieve “zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths” by ...

New Consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services from the WHO recommend that Lay providers who are trained can, using rapid diagnostic tests, independently conduct safe and effective HIV testing services.

Forging a Path to 90-90-90: Launch of WHO Guidelines on HIV Testing Services and UNAIDS/WHO Guidelines on Conducting National Population-based HIV Surveys