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GNP+ is implementing the GIPA Report Card, an advocacy tool designed to gather information on the level of application of the greater involvement of people living with HIV (GIPA) principle. The GIPA Report Card seeks 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. National networks of people living with HIV are leading the process in their countries. Here you will find the results of the Gipa Report Card in Moldova.

Available in English, Russian and Romanian

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.

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

From December 2010 to February 2011, GNP+ and ICW Global held a series of consultations with people living with HIV to gather their perspectives and personal experiences on how programmes and services that seek to prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to a child should be organised and run. The recommendations from people living with HIV were shared with the Interagency Task Team (IATT) for Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and their Children to support them in strengthening a strategic framework they are developing for the primary prevention of HIV among women of reproductive age and the prevention of unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV (components 1 and 2 of PMTCT).

The consultations revealed that greater uptake of PMTCT services is facilitated by the following:

the decentralization of services to communities;
the provision of accurate information, in a non-judgmental and supportive manner to people living with HIV and their partners;
the recognition of individual rights when testing for HIV;
the presence of peer support as part of post-test counseling and PMTCT programming;
the education of healthcare providers on the rights of individuals accessing services;
and the responsible use of language on sexual and reproductive health

For further information about the consultations held, the findings and the recommendations, please see the following reports:

Vital Voices Factsheet
GNP+ and ICW Recommendations on PMTCT Framework
Appendix_B1_PMTCT_E-consultation_Report_April_2011
Appendix_B2_PMTCT_FDGs_Report_April_2011
Appendix_B3_PMTCT_E-survey_Report_April_2011
Appendix_B4_PMTCT_Experts_Teleconference_Report_April_2011

The Alliance and GNP+ held a workshop from 6–9 December 2010 in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss how people living with HIV are involved in delivering HIV programmes in Africa. The workshop was based on the recently developed GIPA good practice guide. Although the principle of the greater involvement of people living with HIV (GIPA) is not new, it is important to revisit regularly 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.

Available in English and French

The Network for the Empowerment of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya (NEPHAK) would like to thank the respondents for enriching this report with their thoughts and experiences. In spite of the many demands on their time, they made themselves available to participate in this study.

The Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS (GIPA) Report Card is an advocacy tool that measure the application of the GIPA principle in the national response to HIV. In this study a total of 27 organisations from different sectors were purposively sampled and individuals in these organisations interviewed on the application of GIPA principles in Kenya. The sectors represented were the public sector including the National AIDS Control Council, the private sector, civil society, networks of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV), the UNAIDS Secretariat and the country coordinating mechanism (CCM).

This report was produced as part of HIV Leadership through Accountability programme, which ran for five years, from 2009 to 2013

It was spearheaded Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the World AIDS Campaign (WAC), and funded by the Department for International Development (DfID), to create evidence-based campaigning, advocacy and lobbying for and by people living with HIV. Research was carried out to inform and strengthen national, regional and international advocacy, and was implemented with a bottom-up approach, informed by community responses, and strengthened by South-South collaboration.

The countries where the programme was implemented were: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Moldova, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

More information and background materials can be found at http://www.hivleadership.org/ which is the archive site for the programme

Many acronyms are used in the HIV response, but none with more potential for creating positive change than GIPA – the greater involvement of people living with HIV. Translating principles into practice, and making them work within your organisation and programmes, can be challenging but needs to be at the centre of responses to HIV.

The guide offers support for translating the GIPA principle into practice at the programme level. It provides background information and practical strategies to help programme officers meaningfully involve people living with HIV in new and existing programmes.

Available in English, French and Spanish.

The GIPA Tree from the Good Practice Guide can also be downloaded separately below.

Reproduced from the Good Practice Guide on the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA), published in 2010 by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+).

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