The AIDSTAR-One website includes 33 national treatment guidelines from 28 countries including guidelines on Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric ART, PMTCT, Adherence and Retention, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PreP), Community Based Treatment and others. The guidelines are updated quarterly and include a synopsis and summary table of each country's treatment guideline. AIDSTAR-One.com features HIV and AIDS-related resources, including a searchable database of good and promising programmatic practices, technical briefs and case studies on successful programs and emerging approaches and other useful tools.
Sign up for USAID's AIDSTAR-One HIV Prevention email updates. This monthly newsletter shares the latest events, studies and articles related to HIV/AIDS prevention. The resource is packed with reports, guidelines and tools linked to health systems supply chain management.
Consumers play an important public health role by reporting to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) any adverse events (unexpected side effects) after using a medical product, or other problems with any products that the agency regulates. Timely reporting allows the agency to take prompt action. There are a number of ways you can report problems to the agency, depending on the type of problem and product. The following tips and chart will help you make your report.
To mark the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS, The Guardian has posted an interactive map of voices from the frontline. Articles tell stories from doctors, nurses, community workers and those living with HIV and Aids across the globe.
In late January 2008, 130 experts and policy makers from 31 countries, including Cambodia, Haiti, Vietnam and 28 Sub-Saharan African countries, gathered for three days in Maputo, Mozambique for the Consensus Meeting on Clinical Laboratory Testing Harmonization and Standardization. At the end of the meeting, participants agreed to develop national strategic laboratory plans and policies, including standardization and harmonization of laboratory test supplies and equipment. SCMS served as technical secretariat for the meeting, which was sponsored by WHO AFRO and PEPFAR. Access documents generated from the meeting.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) web tool illustrates each individual country's progress towards the highly ambitious MDG targets. The tool includes MDG Progress Scorecards for each country, which include performance trajectories for each core target.
This toolbox contains the ‘tools’ that can be explored and applied by countries who want to improve access to essential medicines by increasing transparency in the medicines supply chain through the creation of a multi-stakeholder alliance. They range from guidance on household surveys that identify how medicines are used by patients to the types of medicines in short supply in a specific region.
A global resource center on male circumcision research, program implementation, documentation, and information. This portal provides a growing number of tools for policy makers and program implementers and those involved in designing and executing programs that offer male circumcision as an HIV risk-reduction strategy for heterosexual men.
The World Heath Organization/AIDS Medicines and Diagnostics Service and its partner organizations initiated the development of a unique PSM Toolbox website for HIV-related health commodities. The PSM Toolbox website features a user-friendly search engine, regularly updated content, a forum to share tool use experiences and more. In addition, an offline version of the PSM Toolbox is available on CD-ROM free of charge.
FCAA’s new resource tracking report provides new information on 2008 HIV/AIDS grantmaking among 345 U.S.-based private philanthropic institutions. This year’s report includes a list of the top 72 funders who disbursed $300,000 (U.S.) or more to HIV/AIDS in 2008, as well as analysis of funds by geographical region and by intended use, the top three main population groups to which their funding was directed, and grantmaker forecasts for funding increases or decreases in 2009.
The Quality Assurance and Safety of Medicines team of the WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies (EMP) is making available details of its planned training and capacity building activities in each of the different programmes.
