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For more information on The People living with HIV Stigma index, visit the the GNP+ PLHIV stigma index website

Some recent studies suggest that women using progestogen-only injectable contraception, such as Depo Provera, may be at higher risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV. The science on the issue, however, is not clear as some studies do not show this relationship.

This brief explores the concerns of people living with HIV around the transmission risks of HIV when using hormonal contraceptives.

GNP+ at ICASA 2011 held a liaison meeting for focal points from networks of people liivng with HIV involved in the HIV Leadership through accountability programme. The meeting included 18 people of 10 different networks.

Main issues discussed were:

Update of programmes in the different countries;
Collaboration around LIVING 2012.

HIV is a major obstacle to employment security. People living with HIV may be unable to find or maintain employment as a result of ill health. However, evidence from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index (PLHIV Stigma Index) reveals that HIV-related stigma and discrimination are as frequently or more frequently a cause of unemployment/denial of work opportunity as ill health in many national settings.

This evidence brief has been prepared by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), and was funded by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work (ILO/AIDS). It includes PLHIV Stigma Index findings from nine countries in four regions: Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia (sub-Saharan Africa), Estonia and Poland (Eastern Europe), Malaysia and the Philippines (Asia-Pacific,) and Argentina and Mexico (South America). PLHIV Stigma Index data clearly shows that HIV-related stigma and discrimination directly impede access to work by people living with HIV by:

obstructing entry to the labour market
changing the type of work individuals are allowed to perform
preventing promotion to more senior positions
triggering people being fired from their jobs
impeding access to adult education and training

A poster presentation with a summary of its findings are available here.

The 3rd HIV LTA Planning and Review Meeting marked a new stage in the evolution of the LTA programme, with the first round of countries that joined the programme sharing their expertise and taking on mentorship roles to the other countries. In addition, they shared key findings and strategized about how civil society and the national networks of PLHIV should work together to plan and implement evidence-based advocacy and campaigns.

Available in English and French

The GIPA Report Card is a means of generating evidence about the application of the GIPA principle in-country based on the views and experiences of people living with HIV. The evidence will contribute to monitoring and evaluating governments’ and organisations’ application of the GIPA principle, particularly in light of the 2001 United Nations General Assembly’s Special Session on HIV and the Declaration of Commitment.

The GIPA Report Card is an advocacy tool, which aims to increase and improve the programmatic, policy and funding actions taken to realise the greater involvement of people living with HIV in a country’s HIV response.

Available in English and French

For more information on the the specifics of the GIPA Report Card or on countries that have applied the GIPA principle, click here

This is the Civil Society Declaration for the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in 2011

The “HIV Leadership through Accountability” Programme is funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development (DFID) Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF). It combines specific evidence-gathering tools, national AIDS campaigns and targeted advocacy for good governance and Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

It contributes to the setting of national, regional and global evidence-based campaign agendas based on the GIPA principle through a community driven process. It will be implemented in fifteen countries around the world, and though time-limited, effects are anticipated to be long-lasting, delivering significant capacity building beyond the direct research and advocacy impact.

“Criminalisation of HIV” is a phrase that is used to refer to enacting of laws directed at punishing behaviour that may transmit HIV and the application of general laws in a manner that targets those with HIV who may transmit or expose another person to HIV.

The Global Criminalisation Scan (The Scan) is a programme that was developed to respond to this growing trend. The Scan was initiated and is led by the Global Network of people living with HIV (GNP+) in partnership with others to map and document the existence of laws, practices and policies that impact on responses to HIV. The scan was adapted in 2010 to include protective as well as punitive laws.

Positive laws and policies create the environment in which necessary services can be easily and equitably accessed. For this to happen, these laws need to be promoted and enforced. Examples of positive laws and practices include laws that protect people living with HIV from discrimination, particularly discrimination on the grounds of actual or perceived HIV positive status.

Available in English and French

For more information on criminalisation of HIV, visit the the GNP+ criminalisation scan website

This framework supports the ‘Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive’. It is a product of The Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) for Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and their Children and was developed by the IATT Working Group on Primary Prevention of HIV and the Prevention of Unintended Pregnancies in Women Living with HIV (now included with the Integration Working Group under the re-configured IATT).

The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) has been at the forefront of the HIV response since 1986. GNP+ aims to continue to play an active role in guaranteeing the meaningful involvement and quality of life of people living with HIV (PLHIV) by transforming itself in order to meet the ever-growing needs and challenges of the HIV response. Informed by the vision to be a powerful, united worldwide social movement of PLHIV, with their leadership and voice at the core of the HIV pandemic, GNP+ recognises the need to evolve with the times to remain current and cutting-edge.

This comprehensive Strategic Review explored key questions in three areas, focusing on the role, work, and governance of GNP+. While the new Strategic Plan 2011–2105 builds on the achievements of the past, it is also grounded in the realities facing PLHIV today and incorporates recommendations from GNP+’s Strategic Review. From the Strategic Review, GNP+ has identified the continued needs of PLHIV, opportunities and challenges for GNP+, and key priority areas for moving forward.

The Strategic Plan At A Glance is available in online version and in print version. For the print version, please print double sided, and fold through the middle twice.

The Strategic Plan is available in 5 languages.

In June-August 2010, the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) undertook a comprehensive Strategic Review – to inform a new Strategic Plan for 2011-15 and guide the organisation within the changing environment for HIV and global health. The Review was approved by the International Board of GNP+, managed by a Strategic Review Working Group and implemented by an independent consultant. It focused on three areas – the role, work and governance of GNP+ – and explored key questions (such as how GNP+ could make a more effective contribution to the global response to HIV). The Review looked backwards (reflecting on GNP+’s strengths and weaknesses in 2006-10) and forwards (identifying strategic issues and options for the future). Its remit was the competencies and strategies of the International Secretariat of GNP+ (not the wider PLHIV movement or regional networks, nor serving as an evaluation of GNP+’s programmatic and advocacy work).

In this summary you will find a short overview about the methodology, context and the results of the Review. The Summary is available in 5 languages. The full report is available in English only, and can be found here.

The full review is available in English only. A summary is available in 5 languages here.

Based on input from networks of people with HIV worldwide, Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV (the ‘Guidance Package’) was developed by GNP+ with its global partners. The Guidance Package explains what needs to be done by global stakeholders in the areas of advocacy, health systems, policy making, and law to support and advance the issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) – and why they matter.

The Guidance Package has been further elaborated into five policy briefings on key populations living with HIV and advancing SRHR for PLHIV: people who use drugs, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners and migrants. These set of policy briefings take the Guidance Package to a more in-depth level, taking the ‘lens’ of a population of people living with HIV and articulating specific and concrete advocacy and programme recommendations that meet the needs of those key populations of PLHIV.

Available in English and French.

GNP+ is proud of its achievements and progress over the last few years. To ensure maximum transparency and accountability, GNP+ publishes its Annual Reports after they have been audited and approved by an external auditor.

This report reflects the workshop on the GIPA Good Practice Guide that was conducted jointly by GNP+ and the Alliance in Dakar, Senegal, in December 2010. The workshop aimed to discuss how people living with HIV are involved in delivering HIV programmes in Africa. Based on the recently developed GIPA good practice guide, the principle of the greater involvement of people living with HIV (GIPA) was revisited to assess how it is being applied in HIV programmes so that people living with HIV can play an effective role in how HIV work is shaped and run in their countries.

Smaller versions of the report are available in black and white in English and French.

GNP+ and the World AIDS Campaign supported the development of key advocacy priority messages and a briefing paper by and for young people living with HIV. These messages mean to inform the 2011 UNGASS process. These priorities were formulated based on results from an online survey with 168 young people living with HIV from 55 countries, as well as a literature review and interviews with several key informants.

Young people living with HIV want:

Universal access to treatment
No laws and policies that criminalise HIV transmission
Meaningful involvement into the rights and needs of young people living with HIV
Coaching in developing leadership skills
Safe disclosure

Available in English, French, Russian and Spanish

At the request of several missions, the Civil Society Coalition has put together a briefing paper on the language in the latest version of the Outcome Document. Based on the civil society declaration, the advocacy messages for member states missions, and briefing documents and letters put out by wider civil society, this briefing paper focuses on the most contentious issues in the negotiations in each of our four categories: human rights, treatment, prevention, and funding.

This report is a cross analysis of PLHIV Stigma Index data from the research carried out in Estonia, Moldova, Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine, bringing a specific lens to bear on the issues regarding barriers to accessing testing and care. To read a summary presentation of the studies, you can view the presentation below.

Late testing late_treatment_thursday_26_may_2011_with_embedded_notes_mab from gnpplus

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