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The PrEPWatch Resource Database offers a wide range of material on the status of PrEP as an option for biomedical HIV prevention around the world. Search this database to find step-by-step guidance for rolling out PrEP, summaries of the research to date on safety, efficacy and implementation, tools to assist planning and roll out, country updates on PrEP policy and access, and lessons learned from those efforts.

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7 January 2020

Market Authorization 101

This slide deck outlines a potential path of market authorization for the dapivirine vaginal ring. It clarifies the necessary regulatory, normative guidance, and policy steps at the global and country levels that would be needed to support ring introduction. This Market Authorization 101 deck is intended to illustrate the ring pathway to market and assist…

Normative Guidance/Policies

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6 January 2020

What Have We Learned About Adolescent Girls and Young Women and HIV Prevention?

Using survey data collected from ongoing, planned and completed projects studying HIV prevention for adolescent girls and young women, it is possible to identify trends and gaps in the data, and provide a clear snapshot of what we know now.

Research

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10 October 2019

Social Harms and Use of the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring

The dapivirine ring and other woman-initiated HIV prevention methods are designed to enable women to have more control over their sexual health and risk of HIV exposure, but research has revealed that women's male partners often influence their ability to use these methods. This brief summarizes an analysis of MTN-020/ASPIRE trial data, which showed that…

Research

Document
15 July 2019

PrEP4Youth Public Service Announcements

PrEP is a new HIV prevention method that offers more than 90 percent protection when taken correctly. The OPTIONS Consortium, in collaboration with the South African National Department of Health, created five short, powerful videos that encourage PrEP as an acceptable HIV prevention method for adolescent girls and young women. The videos were crafted to…

Demand Creation/Marketing

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21 June 2019

Provider Training Package: Effective Delivery of Oral PrEP for Adolescent Girls and Young Women

The slides have been developed for all categories of healthcare providers involved in the provision of PrEP. The slides are adaptable depending on the participants and have been developed with this flexibility in mind.

Service Delivery

Presentation
17 April 2019

Health care providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) relevant to oral PrEP service provision to AGYW in Zimbabwe Preliminary Qualitative Findings

This study of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among health care providers in Zimbabwe explores questions about PrEP services for adolescent girls and young women. The findings offer insights that can be applied to provider training and support.

Research, Service Delivery

Document
3 April 2019

Understanding and Measuring Uptake and Coverage of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Delivery Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper proposes an intervention-centric cascade as a framework for developing a common lexicon of metrics for uptake and coverage of oral PrEP among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). In codifying these indicators, approaches to clearly define metrics for uptake and coverage are outlined, and the discussion on 'low' uptake is reframed to focus…

Monitoring & Evaluation, Service Delivery

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2 April 2019

Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection — Second edition

In June 2016, WHO released guidelines on the diagnosis of HIV infection, the use of ARVs for treating and preventing HIV infection and the care of people living with HIV. They are structured along the continuum of HIV testing, prevention, treatment and care. This edition updates the 2013 consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral…

Monitoring & Evaluation, Normative Guidance/Policies, Research

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14 March 2019

Addressing Gender to Ensure Effective PrEP Introduction

As new HIV prevention methods are rolled out, women, girls, men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people will face barriers to product access and use that stem from cultural norms, lack of power in relationships and society and limited access to resources. Gender analyses conducted in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe identified…

Community/Advocacy, Demand Creation/Marketing

Document
6 February 2019

The Landscape For End User Research: Mapping and Findings

The HIV Prevention Market Manager undertook an effort to map the landscape of ongoing and planned work on bringing HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women and other populations in sub-Saharan Africa. This document provides a summary and analysis of the end-user projects and studies underway. This information can be used to inform collaborations…

Demand Creation/Marketing, Research, Service Delivery

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