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PAHO provides technical cooperation for the prevention and control of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in the Region of the Americas. It also promotes, designs, and facilitates technical activities and policies to improve the capacity of Member Countries to reduce the number of future infections and to provide timely and adequate care for people with HIV.

Prevention

	HIV Newsletter July 2007 HIV Newsletter July 2007 : GAN’s Meeting Monitors Results of ARV Price Negotiation; New Evidence for Prevention through Male Circumcision; Andean Countries Update Knowledge of Second Generation Surveillance; PAHO Harmonizes HIV Agenda with ORAS; Developing HIV Estimates for Latin America and the Caribbean; Third Meeting of the TAC in September 2007 in Guatemala; “Know your Status” Initiative launched on 27 June— HIV Testing and Counseling Services Awareness Day; The Global HIV Prevention Working Group launches New Report for “Scaling up” HIV prevention; Central America Moves Towards Implementation of Regional HIV Plan; Third Latin American Health Journalism Award Launched; WHO Removes Viracept® from Roche of its Prequalified List; Colleagues in HIV/AIDS Unit to Receive PAHO’s Annual Award for Outstanding Team; Suggested Readings; Most frequently used HIV Acronyms   |More| |More in PDF|
	New Approaches to HIV Prevention A growing number of promising new hiv prevention approaches are in the late stages of clinical research, and have the potential to dramatically reduce the burden of hiv/aids around the world. Research on some of these approaches, such as male circumcision and diaphragms, could show results within the next two years. But there are serious obstacles that could significantly delay, or even derail, critical prevention trials — including inadequate resources and capacity to launch and complete trials, and emerging ethical concerns. Moreover, the world is unprepared to capitalize on the potential success of prevention research currently underway. Very little has been done to mobilize resources and develop the public health guidance, provider training, and public education needed to ensure rapid implementation of new prevention methods. This new report by the Global hiv Prevention Working Group, New Approaches to hiv Prevention: Accelerating Research and Ensuring Future Access, summarizes the state of hiv prevention research, and makes recommendations to speed research on promising new hiv prevention methods, and ensure rapid access to new tools and strategies as soon as they are proven effective.  |More in PDF|
	Toward Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment: 3 by 5 Report for the Americas As governments, organizations, and individuals strive to combat AIDS deaths and the spread of HIV, we must all aim high. The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its potential to spread require high level planning and large scale action. When the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS set the goal to treat three million people with antiretrovirals by 2005, it was with this aim to think big and achieve commensurate gains.  |More in PDF|
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Care and Treatment

	Guidelines for the Implementation of Reliable and Efficient Diagnostic Testing and counseling for human immunodeficiency viurs (HIV) is now recognized as a priority in national HIV programs because it is the gateway to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support interventions. These guidelines describe a process for implementing government approved, same-visit HIV testing in the Region of the Americas.   |More in PDF|
	PAHO statement on removal of two AIDS medicines from list of prequalified products Lamivudine 150mg tablets and Lamivudine 150mg + Zidovudine 300mg tablets, were removed by WHO from its list of HIV/AIDS prequalified medicines. As part of the ongoing monitoring and verification process, an inspection was later performed at the Contract Research Organization (CRO) that was used by CIPLA to carry out the bioequivalence studies. During this inspection, compliance with Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) was assesed. The CRO was found not to be compliant with GCP and GLO and the raw data failed to prove bioequivalence.   |More in PDF|
	ARV Price Negotiations This paper was presented at the 8th World STI/AIDS Congress, Punta del Este, Uruguay, in December 2003 and examines how the shift from a country by country approach in price negotiations to a sub-regional approach resulted in a rapid decrease in HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral (ARV) prices in Latin America and the Caribbean.   |More in PDF|
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Communication

	Campaigns against homophobia in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico As part of the response to HIV and homophobia, four mass media campaigns were carried out between 2002 and 2005 in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. This publication describes and analyzes these campaigns.  |More in PDF|
	Know Your Status Initiative This file contains the Know Your Status Initiative kit. The Know Your Status Initiative proposes a series of actions and tools aimed at increasing the public’s demand for HIV testing and counseling services. This initiative complements PAHO/WHO’s activities to support the countries’ efforts to strengthen and expand HIV testing and counseling services, within the broader context of the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention, care, and treatment services. The Know Your Status Initiative aims at creating an environment that enables people to make informed decisions about the importance of learning one own’s serological status, while at the same time encouraging the use of health services that offer HIV testing and counseling.   |More in PDF|
	VIHdeo America: an anthology of 10 years of HIV TV spots in the Americas VIHdeo America is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization to disseminate TV spots about HIV created by different countries on a two-disc DVD set that contains 198 TV spots produced between 1995 and 2005 in 24 countries of the Americas. Copies of this DVD may be requested through the PAHO Publications Program.  |More|
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Policy and Programs

	HIV Newsletter October-December 2007 PAHO Electronic Bulletin on HIV No. 16 October-December 2007 Latin America and Caribbean Begins Preparation for AIDS 2008; AIDS 2008 Now Accepting Abstracts; New PAHO HIV Office for the Caribbean; PAHO Adapts Guidelines for Antiretroviral Treatment for LAC; Latin American Develops Strategy to Address Drug Resistance; More than 2,000 Attend V CONCASIDA; CONCASIDA Examines Sustainable; Quality Services for HIV; Second-Generation Surveillance: a Closer Look at the Epidemic in CONCASIDA, PAHO Strengthens Dialogue with Civil Society in CONCASIDA; Pos-CONCASIDA; Nicaragua Repeals Article that Penalized Same-Sex Relations; Third TAC Reviews Progress and Priorities; PAHO and Representatives from the Religious Sector to Cooperate; Suggested Readings; Most frequently used HIV Acronyms  |More| |More in PDF|
	TAC 2007 - Third Meeting of PAHO’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on HIV/STI, held in Managua, Nicaraqua, September 16 - 18, 2007 Third Meeting of PAHO’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on HIV/STI, held in Managua, Nicaraqua, September 16 - 18, 2007  |More|
	Fact Sheets on HIV in the Americas Fact Sheets on HIV in the Americas  |More|
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Surveillance, M&E

	HIV Newsletter October-December 2007 PAHO Electronic Bulletin on HIV No. 16 October-December 2007 Latin America and Caribbean Begins Preparation for AIDS 2008; AIDS 2008 Now Accepting Abstracts; New PAHO HIV Office for the Caribbean; PAHO Adapts Guidelines for Antiretroviral Treatment for LAC; Latin American Develops Strategy to Address Drug Resistance; More than 2,000 Attend V CONCASIDA; CONCASIDA Examines Sustainable; Quality Services for HIV; Second-Generation Surveillance: a Closer Look at the Epidemic in CONCASIDA, PAHO Strengthens Dialogue with Civil Society in CONCASIDA; Pos-CONCASIDA; Nicaragua Repeals Article that Penalized Same-Sex Relations; Third TAC Reviews Progress and Priorities; PAHO and Representatives from the Religious Sector to Cooperate; Suggested Readings; Most frequently used HIV Acronyms  |More| |More in PDF|
	HIV Newsletter July 2007 HIV Newsletter July 2007 : GAN’s Meeting Monitors Results of ARV Price Negotiation; New Evidence for Prevention through Male Circumcision; Andean Countries Update Knowledge of Second Generation Surveillance; PAHO Harmonizes HIV Agenda with ORAS; Developing HIV Estimates for Latin America and the Caribbean; Third Meeting of the TAC in September 2007 in Guatemala; “Know your Status” Initiative launched on 27 June— HIV Testing and Counseling Services Awareness Day; The Global HIV Prevention Working Group launches New Report for “Scaling up” HIV prevention; Central America Moves Towards Implementation of Regional HIV Plan; Third Latin American Health Journalism Award Launched; WHO Removes Viracept® from Roche of its Prequalified List; Colleagues in HIV/AIDS Unit to Receive PAHO’s Annual Award for Outstanding Team; Suggested Readings; Most frequently used HIV Acronyms   |More| |More in PDF|
	A guide to monitoring and evaluating HIV/AIDS care and support This guide is intended to support Managers of the AIDS Programs(Nationals, regionals, provinces) in the task to monitor and evaluate the HIV/AIDS care and support programs of public and private character. This guide helps evaluate if the care and support programs are being run and executed correctly.   |More in PDF|
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