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Discover how frontline and community partners are adapting HIV services in crisis settings in this webinar co‑organized by UNHCR, WFP and UNAIDS. The session explores the critical interface between HIV and humanitarian emergencies, shares updates on the revision of the IASC Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings, and features insights from MSF, FHI, 100% Life Ukraine and Young Positive South Sudan. These experts highlight concrete ways humanitarian and community‑based organizations are working together to safeguard and expand access to essential HIV services amid complex emergencies.

The global HIV response is at a pivotal moment: while we are closer than ever to ending AIDS as a public health threat, progress is increasingly at risk due to converging crises, volatility, and widening inequalities. The Strategy integrates HIV in humanitarian settings , calling for HIV to be embedded in security, disaster preparedness, and humanitarian response plans, and emphasizing the need to maintain HIV and SRHR services — including for survivors of SGBV — during emergencies. It also underscores the essential role of community‑led organizations, which often sustain access to services when formal systems are disrupted, facilitating uninterrupted access to treatment.

The global HIV response is at a pivotal moment: while we are closer than ever to ending AIDS as a public health threat, progress is increasingly at risk due to converging crises, volatility, and widening inequalities. The Strategy integrates HIV in humanitarian settings , calling for HIV to be embedded in security, disaster preparedness, and humanitarian response plans, and emphasizing the need to maintain HIV and SRHR services — including for survivors of SGBV — during emergencies. It also underscores the essential role of community‑led organizations, which often sustain access to services when formal systems are disrupted facilitating uninterrupted access to treatment.

Acute and protracted climatic events, hostile anti-LGBTQI environments, and political and civil unrest threaten to reverse gains in HIV prevention and treatment outcomes and disrupt even the most agile and adaptive HIV services. Synergistically, these multiple crises - or polycrises - create barriers to HIV and other lifesaving services that are in greater demand as HIV risk, trauma, violence, and other economic and social stressors are exacerbated. This session will explore the HIV response in the context of polycrises and highlight actions that actors are taking to promote preparedness and mitigate negative impacts. Speakers will share how HIV programmes have adapted to ensure continuity of HIV prevention, care and treatment in addition to other critical services to vulnerable groups; gaps that persist; and ways forward. The session will conclude with a call to action for donors, policy makers, implementers and communities. The session was organized by FHI 360, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Department of State Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD) during the International AIDS Conference 2024.

The Clinical Management of Rape and Intimate Partner Violence in Emergencies (CMRIPV) training curriculum is an in-person training package designed to equip health workers in humanitarian settings with the competencies to provide survivor-centered care, including clinical management, first-line support using the LIVES approach, and mental health interventions. Based on the 2020 WHO publication Clinical Management of Rape and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: Developing Protocols for Use in Humanitarian Settings, this curriculum aligns with international standards and includes: - Structured session plans with interactive activities like role plays and case studies - Web Annex A: Facilitator Resources - Web Annex B: Participant Job Aids - Presentation slides for mini lectures

6th edition of the Interagency Emergency Reproductive Health Kits manual which provides information on the kits' contents, use and ordering procedures. These specially designed pre-packaged kits contain the essential medicines and health technologies, equipment and supplies needed to implement the service objectives of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for sexual and reproductive health in crisis. These include post rape kits, blood transfusion kits, as well as treatment of STIs kits.

Ces directives expliquent les objectifs et le fonctionnement du fonds d'urgence du Fonds mondial qui vise à aider les candidats éligibles à maintenir la fourniture et la continuité des services essentiels de prévention, de dépistage et de traitement du VIH, de la tuberculose et du paludisme dans les situations d'urgence. Les lignes directrices visent à soutenir les pays lorsque le réinvestissement des fonds de subvention existants n'est pas possible ou nécessite un délai de traitement prolongé.

This policy brief highlights the interconnectedness of climate change and global health, emphasizing the urgent need for increased attention, investment, and action at the climate-health nexus. The brief calls for a more systematic approach to addressing the climate-health crisis, including the role of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in supporting countries and communities. It provides an overview of how climate change affects HIV and offers policy directions for governments and specific roles for UNAIDS to enhance the effectiveness of climate and health initiatives.

Infographic presenting some 2022-2023 results from the UNAIDS Joint Programme work on HIV in humanitarian settings.

Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) around the world have seen worrying signs of a reversal in progress against all three diseases, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic difficulties.This briefing paper presents examples from seven countries: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mozambique, Myanmar, South Sudan and Uganda illustrating the consequences of the funding shortfall for MSF's patients. The briefing paper aims at encouraging donor countries to demonstrate their commitment with increased pledges at the upcoming Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) replenishment round.