Men And Hiv Evidence Based Approaches And Interventions A Framework For Person Centred Health Services

Men and HIV: evidence-based approaches and interventions. A framework for person-centred health services

Practical approaches and case-based models for reaching men and boys with integrated HIV services

Men lag behind women regarding use of HIV services and represent the majority of individuals living with uncontrolled HIV, advanced HIV, and who experience HIV-related mortality. Men (15+) globally are less likely than women (15+) to know their HIV status (83% for men vs 91% for women), be on antiretroviral treatment (ART) (72% for men vs 83% for women) and reach viral suppression (67% for men vs 78% for women). There is a growing evidence base on what strategies improve men’s use of HIV services. In 2023, WHO published “Men and HIV: evidence-based approaches and interventions. A framework for person-centred health services”, which promoted core evidence-based strategies to meet men’s unique needs for HIV and related services. This Implementation Brief is aligned to the WHO Men and HIV Framework and highlights strategies to reach men, practical examples and lessons learned from real-world implementation, and how health policies have incorporated men’s health. The brief has three specific objectives: 1.Provide overarching considerations on how to optimize strategies to engage men across the HIV cascade 2.Synthesize specific PCC strategies and implementation insights 3.Describe evidence-based approaches for informed decision making around scaling men’s HIV services Objectives 2 and 3 provide tangible, practical case examples of evidence in practice from within sub-Saharan Africa.

Preventing HIV through safe voluntary medical male circumcision for adolescent boys and men in generalized HIV epidemics

Since 2007 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have recommended voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an important strategy for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV in men in settings where the prevalence of heterosexually transmitted HIV is high. Over 25 million men and adolescent boys in East and Southern Africa have been reached with VMMC services. These new guidelines update earlier WHO recommendations to maximize the HIV prevention impact of safe VMMC services and aim to guide the transition to the sustained provision of interventions with a focus on the health and well-being of both adolescent boys and men.