{"id":31360,"date":"2017-02-27T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=31360"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:15:51","slug":"who-guidelines-on-hiv-self-testing-and-partner-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/31360","title":{"rendered":"WHO guidelines on HIV self-testing and partner notification (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHO press statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On 29 November 2016, WHO has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to and uptake of HIV diagnosis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a new WHO progress report, lack of an HIV diagnosis is a major obstacle to implementing the recommendation that everyone with HIV should be offered antiretroviral therapy (ART).<\/p>\n<p>The report reveals that more than 18 million people with HIV are currently taking ART, and a similar number is still unable to access treatment, the majority of which are unaware of their HIV positive status.<\/p>\n<p>Links to the guidelines and related resources are below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Progress report 2016: Prevent HIV, test and treat all &#8211; WHO support for country impact<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/progressreports\/2016-progress-report\/en\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/progressreports\/2016-progress-report\/en<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidelines on HIV self-testing and partner notification<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/vct\/hiv-self-testing-guidelines\/en\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/vct\/hiv-self-testing-guidelines\/en<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy brief HIV self testing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/10665\/251549\/1\/WHO-HIV-2016.21-eng.pdf\">http:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/10665\/251549\/1\/WHO-HIV-2016.21-eng.pdf<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy Brief partner notification<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/10665\/251548\/1\/WHO-HIV-2016.22-eng.pdf\">http:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/10665\/251548\/1\/WHO-HIV-2016.22-eng.pdf<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO Video: HIV self-testing &#8211; Questions and Answers<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/mediacentre\/news\/hiv-self-testing-video\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/mediacentre\/news\/hiv-self-testing-video\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>WHO press statement. WHO issues new guidance on HIV self-testing ahead of World AIDS Day. (29 November 2016).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/entity\/mediacentre\/news\/releases\/2016\/world-aids-day\/en\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/entity\/mediacentre\/news\/releases\/2016\/world-aids-day\/en\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO press statement On 29 November 2016, WHO has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to and uptake of HIV diagnosis. According to a new WHO progress report, lack of an HIV diagnosis is a major obstacle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidelines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}