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HIV Prevention on the U.S.-Mexico Border Along the U.S.-Mexico border, a growing HIV epidemic fueled largely by commercial sex and injecting drug use threatens both countries. Read more.

Collaborative HIV Adolescent Mental Health Program (CHAMP)

CHAMP uses a manual with a cartoon storyline to address high rates of adolescent HIV exposure in urban minority neighborhoods of South Africa. Ten 90-minute group sessions are designed to increase HIV knowledge and decrease stigma; parental authority and skill; and social cohesion. Read more.

Broader access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV has dramatically improved the prognosis for millions living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries. As demand for treatment grows, country-level treatment programs must identify effective, efficient, and affordable service delivery approaches that can be scaled up. AIDSTAR-One provides global technical leadership and knowledge management for treatment programming through technical assistance and support to country-level program planners and managers seeking to improve and scale up their treatment programs.

Learn more about Treatment here.

Visit our database of documents which includes national HIV and AIDS treatment guidelines from 33 countries, technical briefs, case studies and other related materials.

AIDSTAR-One has developed a technical brief summarizing the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2008 Pediatric HIV Treatment Guidelines. The brief describes WHO recommendations and provides links to useful resources for HIV/AIDS program implementers.

This brief does not include outcomes from the November 2009 guideline revisions. For the most recent WHO HIV treatment tools, visit the World Health Organization.

Some 15 million children alive today have lost one or both parents to AIDS, and millions of others whose parents are infected with HIV are vulnerable. Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) are at risk of stigma, poor health and nutrition, limited educational and vocational opportunities, and inadequate social and emotional support. When PEPFAR was launched in 2003, OVC became a priority for U.S. Government efforts. To improve OVC programming globally, AIDSTAR-One seeks to:

Find out more about OVC here.

Each year, mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) accounts for the vast majority of the more than 700,000 estimated new HIV infections in children worldwide. Without intervention, HIV-infected mothers have a 35 percent overall risk of transmitting HIV to their child during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding. Access to comprehensive prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services leads to improved safe motherhood and child survival, reduces pediatric HIV infection and promotes family-centered prevention and care.

AIDSTAR-One is the leading resource network in comprehensive PMTCT programming for USAID, other USG agencies and partners by providing a platform for global technical leadership and knowledge management.

Learn more about PMTCT here.

AIDSTAR-One has collected PMTCT National Guidelines from several countries, including Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Swaziland and Lesotho. These documents, along with HIV treatment guidelines from over 25 countries, are available in the Treatment Documents database on AIDSTAR-One.

The vast majority of People Living with HIV (PLWHs) can receive significant benefit from a range of care services that stabilize their health and increase overall well being. AIDSTAR-One’s Care and Support (C&S) activities are aimed at advancing and supporting good and promising programmatic practices (G3Ps) that will increase access to and utilization of comprehensive and well linked care and support services.

Learn more about C&S here.

Mental Health and HIV/AIDS Mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression, cognitive impairment, and substance abuse are often undetected and under-treated in people living with HIV (PLWH). Read more.

Counseling and testing (CT) services are the critical entry point for HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support services. Because knowing one's HIV status can prolong life and prevent further transmission, access to CT is now considered a human right. To improve and scale up counseling and testing services, AIDSTAR-One provides global technical leadership and knowledge management, support for piloting of high-quality CT service delivery programs that can be scaled up, state-of-the-art technical assistance in strategic planning and implementation to U.S. Government partners.

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AIDSTAR-One is exploring the status of provider-initiated testing and counseling (PITC) implementation in several countries based on the WHO “Three Cs” of counseling and testing: consent, counseling, and confidentiality.

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Home-based HIV counseling and testing (HBCT) has high acceptability and uptake among clients. Despite a lack of international guidelines on HBCT, countries like Kenya and Uganda are implementing this strategy.

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Gender inequity is at the heart of many of the challenges experienced by HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support programs. For this reason, AIDSTAR-One mainstreams gender issues across HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support activities and provides technical resources to increase the capacity of programs and organizations to conduct gender analysis and integrate gender strategies into their activities. The project compiles and disseminates evidence on how gender strategies are being integrated, implemented, measured, and replicated by HIV programs from around the world.

Find out more about Gender here.

In May 2010 AIDSTAR-One facilitated a Consultation on Scaling up the Response to Gender-Based Violence in PEPFAR, sponsored by the OGAC and the Gender Technical Working Group.

Dr. Eric Goosby, Global AIDS Coordinator, announced a new women and girl centered, three year, $30 million initiative to scale up multi-sectoral gender-based violence (GBV) programming in three countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Mozambique. Learn More