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Maintaining essential services

Potential disruptions in HIV services resulting from COVID-19 threaten to double the number of HIV-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2021. Updated operational guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends practical actions countries can take to reorganize and safely maintain access to high-quality, essential health services, including HIV prevention and treatment, during the pandemic. This guidance is one of many useful resources on health services in the context of COVID-19 from WHO.

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Impact of male circumcision

impact of male circumcision

A systematic review and meta‐analysis found strong, consistent evidence over 32 years from diverse study designs and settings that medical male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection among heterosexual men...

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HIV services in the time of COVID-19

PEPFAR loo

A series of briefs from UNAIDS and its partners in the Global HIV Prevention Coalition provides guidance to countries on maintaining essential HIV services and safeguarding the health of vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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PEPFAR guidance on HIV and COVID-19

PEPFAR guidance on HIV and COVID-19

Technical guidance from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is updated periodically, includes information about how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect VMMC services…

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What PEPFAR COP20 means for VMMC

PEPFAR COP20 Webinar

A video, transcript, and other materials are available from an AIDSFree webinar on effective approaches to increasing uptake of VMMC services in the context of new Country Operating Plan (COP) guidance for 2020 from PEPFAR…

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VMMC at CROI 2020

CROI 2020

Webcasts, abstracts, and posters are available from 21 presentations on VMMC for HIV prevention made during the virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in March 2020…

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In the News

 

COVID-19 response limits HIV prevention

HIV prevention services are among those most disrupted by restrictions designed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in five African countries…

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HIV R4P extends deadline for abstracts

The conference has extended the deadline for submitting abstracts to 23 July 2020 and has added a category on applying lessons from HIV prevention to COVID-19...

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COVID-19 may cause spike in AIDS deaths

Disruptions in HIV services resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to as many as 673,000 extra AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa…

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