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,,,Sarah Whitmarsh, Mervyn Christian and their team at the Gates Institute on publication in February 2021 of Revitalizing local ownership of family planning: a decade of advocacy in Indonesia. A decade of strategic advocacy has re-energized the family planning community in Indonesia, enabling collaboration across government and civil society to increase multi-sector investment, capitalize on policy change, and improve access to quality information, services, and supplies. A key catalyst in this revival was the decade-long engagement of the Advance Family Planning Initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Populateion and Reporductive Health, with local partners Yayasan Cipta and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Indonesia.
...Julie Samuelson, Wole Ameyan and the teams working them at the World Health Organization's Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes on publication of the new guidelines, Preventing HIV through safe voluntary medical male circumcision for adolescent boys and men in generalized HIV epidemics: recommendations and key considerations. Published August 2020, these new guidelines update 2007 WHO recommendations so as to maximize the HIV prevention impact of safe VMMC services and guide the transition to sustained provision of services with a focus on the health and well-being of both adolescent boys and men. An accompanying policy brief summarizes the recommendations and the evidence behind them.
…David Lowrance, Virginia Loo and the international team working with Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes at the World Health Organization on publication of Consolidated HIV strategic information guidelines: Driving impact through programme monitoring and management. The guidelines, published in April 2020, present a set of essential indicators along with guidance on choosing, collecting and analyzing information to strategically manage and monitor the national health sector response to HIV. As the guidelines note, “Strategic information answers the questions: ‘How are patients doing?’, ‘How is the programme performing?’ and ‘How can we do better?’ Without these answers, the response to the HIV epidemic would be wandering in the dark.”
...Duff Gillespie, Beth Fredrick, Sabrina Karklins, and Sarah Whitmarsh at the Gates Institute for Populatioin and Reproductive Health on publication in June 2020 of the Options Brief, The future of advocacy: local ownership, sustainability and grant-making. This thoughtful essay, addressed to donor organizations, lays out options for how donors, NGOs, and governments can better support local ownership of health, development, and human rights advocacy. It also a proposes a model global investment mechanism with the key elements needed to advance and sustain a meaningful advocacy effort.
...Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Avni Amin and Megin Reijnders of the World Health Organization Department of Reproductive Health and Research on publication, on Universal Health Care Day, 2019, of Caring for women subjected to violence: A WHO curriculum for training health-care providers.This complete training package consists of a facilitator's manual, handouts, resources for exercises, PowerPoint presentations and monitoring and evaluation tools. The curriculum is based on Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence againset women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines and Health care for women subjected to intimate parter violence or sexual violence: a clinical handbook.
...Maggie Barr-Dichiarra, Cheryl Johnson and colleagues at the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS on publication of the 2019 update to the WHO guidelnies on HIV testing services. The updates emphasize adaptation of testing services to the changing HIV epidemic. The new guidelines are currently available through the phone app WHO HTS INFO, available on the Play Store and the App Store. A brief summarizing the guidance and other, related policy briefs are available online on the WHO website.
...Rachel Baggaley and her team at the World Health Organization's Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes on publication of Preventing HIV and other STIs among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV incidence. Actions for improved clinical and prevention services and choices. This programmatic brief, published in June 2020, explores how to expand HIV and STI prevention and contraceptive method options in contraceptive services and, thus, to reduce HIV and STI incidence among adolescent girls and women.
...Cheryl Johnson, Karen Hatzold and their colleagues at the STAR Initiative, Unitaid and the World Health Organization (WHO) on publication, for World AIDS Day 2018, of Knowing your status – then and now: Realizing the potential of HIV self-testing. The report summarizes the evolution of HIV-self test programming and details the achievements of Unitaid's STAR Initiative. By November 2018 the STAR Initiative had distributed 2.3 million HIV self-test kits in six African countries.
...Muhammad Jamil and teams at the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS and the International Labour Organization on publication of the policy brief HIV self-testing at the workplace. The brief highlights the potential of the workplace as a site for HIV self-testing.
...Rachel Baggaley, Heather Ingold, Cheryl Johnson, Anna Laura Ross and Muhammad Jamil and teams at WHO and Unitaid on publication of Unitaid's fourth (2018) edition of Market and technology landscape: HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing. The report charts increases in the distribution of HIV self-tests and projects significant growth in the global market in both public and private sectors through and beyond 2020.
...the Key Populations and Innovative Prevention team at the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS on publication of HIV self-testing strategic framework: A guide for planning, introducing and scaling up. The framework covers preparing for introduction of HIV self-testing, implementing services, monitoring and optimizing implementation.
...Mario Festin, Asa Cuzin-Kihl and the team at the World Health Organization Department of Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/RHR) on publication of the WHO concise guide to implementing and scaling up family planning service improvements. The publication is a step-by-step practical guide with advice drawn from, and linked to, WHO/RHR's extensive publications on scaling-up innovations.
...Julie Samuelson and the team at the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS on publication of the 2018 edition of the WHO progress brief: Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention. The brief estimates that by 2017 VMMC had already averted 230,000 HIV infections.
...Shona Delai and the team at the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS on publication of Module 12, Adolescents and young adults, of the WHO implementation tool for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infection. The new module covers factors that influence HIV susceptibility among young people, clinical considerations, ways to improve access and service utilization, and inclusive monitoring approaches. WHO plans modules on monitoring and evaluation and on regulatory frameworks for publication in 2019.
...the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Reproductive Health and Research on publication of the third edition of Family planning: A global handbook for providers. The updated handbook offers family planning providers worldwide practical guidance on contraceptive methods and related topics, based on the latest WHO guidance. You can download chapters, order copies and keep posted on new translations at www.fphandbook.org. Thanks to the many experts at WHO and around the world who contributed to this update.
...Gabrielle Appleford and colleagues at Marie Stopes International on publication of Brokering accreditation in Kenya's AMUA social franchise network. The report explores what the African Health Markets for Equity project has learned about the conditions necessary for national health insurance schemes in Kenya to work for the poor.
...Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Avni Amin and the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization on the launch of Strengthening health systems to respond to women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence: A manual for health managers. Launched to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2017, the manual supports healthcare managers to develop health systems that respond to the needs of women subjected to violence. It is the companion to Health care for women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence: A clinical handbook, published in 2014 and adopted by countries and health-care systems around the world.
...Marek Harsdorff, Moustapha Kamal Gueye and the team from the Green Jobs Assessment Institutions Network (GAIN) on the launch of the GAIN training guidebook, How to measure and model social and employment outcomes of climate and sustainable development policies. Published by the International Labour Organization, the guidebook supports academic and on-the-job training for analysts charged with assessing the impacts on employment of the shift to greener economies. (The short answer is: "more jobs"!)
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