Resource Library

Plan 4 Ring Toolkit: Demand Creation Lesson Learned

This report documents the lessons of dapivirine ring clinical trials and oral PrEP programs to identify promising strategies and approaches to create consumer demand for the ring and other PrEP products. This tool is part of the Plan 4 Ring toolkit, a suite of resources and tools designed to support national planning for the introduction…

Demand Creation/Marketing

Plan 4 Ring Toolkit: Demand Creation Design Guide

This guide describes a step-by-step process intended to guide program teams and managers of social and behavior change programs as they design and implement an integrated demand creation strategy for the dapivirine ring. This tool is part of the Plan 4 Ring toolkit, a suite of resources and tools designed to support national planning for…

Demand Creation/Marketing

Plan 4 Ring Toolkit: Implementation Study Protocol Template

This template is designed for policymakers and government technical specialists to apply uniform objectives, study design features, and measures across pilot implementation and other operations research studies for introduction of the dapivirine ring. This tool is part of the Plan 4 Ring toolkit, a suite of resources and tools designed to support national planning for…

Research

Plan 4 Ring Toolkit: Facility Readiness Assessments

These two site readiness tools, for the public sector and for pharmacies, are designed to help determine site readiness to provide the dapivirine ring to end users. This tool is part of the Plan 4 Ring toolkit, a suite of resources and tools designed to support national planning for the introduction and scale-up of the…

Normative Guidance/Policies, Service Delivery

Plan 4 Ring Toolkit: Situation Analysis Template

This template can be used to conduct a situational analysis to help plan for rollout of the dapivirine ring. This tool is part of the Plan 4 Ring toolkit, a suite of resources and tools designed to support national planning for the introduction and scale-up of the dapivirine ring.

Demand Creation/Marketing, Financing & Costing, Monitoring & Evaluation, Normative Guidance/Policies, Service Delivery, Supply Chain Management

Plan 4 Ring Toolkit: Introduction Framework

The purpose of this document is to highlight anticipated strengths, challenges, and key questions regarding introduction of the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring in sub-Saharan Africa. This tool is part of the Plan 4 Ring toolkit, a suite of resources and tools designed to support national planning for the introduction and scale-up of the dapivirine ring.

Demand Creation/Marketing, Financing & Costing, Monitoring & Evaluation, Normative Guidance/Policies, Service Delivery, Supply Chain Management

Dried Blood Spot Preparation for Resistance Testing

This job aid for healthcare workers explains how to collect Dried Blood Spot (DBS) samples from people recently diagnosed with HIV, who had been taking PrEP, to test for drug resistance. Further guidance can be found in this video.

Monitoring & Evaluation, Service Delivery

PANCAP PrEP Knowledge Suite

The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) Coordinating Unit and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have developed a collection of knowledge resources for PrEP. The suite consists of social media content, digital brochures, technical guidelines, training and capacity-building materials, and more.

Demand Creation/Marketing

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection: A Toolkit for Health Service Providers, 2017

This toolkit provides health service providers, agencies and institutions with succinct information and guidance to safely and effectively deliver PrEP. The toolkit contains information on indications for PrEP and guidance on assessment, starting, monitoring and discontinuing PrEP. Templates of data collection tools are provided as annexures.

Breaking the Cycle of HIV Transmission: A Human Centred Design Approach to Reach Adolescent Girls and Young Women

One of the key questions that this resource answers is why so many HIV prevention interventions are ineffective with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). Here we outline two locally led project phases that integrate human-centered design methodologies to answer this question and others.

Demand Creation/Marketing