Programming Principles
This section provides good practice principles to guide:
- HIV programming, including prevention; voluntary testing and counselling; treatment, care and support; and addressing stigma and discrimination; and
- mainstreaming HIV within development and humanitarian programmes.
The principles in this section relate to services, programmes and advocacy work (the term ‘programmes' is used to encompass all three). Given the wide diversity of programming work undertaken by NGOs, different good practice principles will be applicable to different organisations.
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PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES:
HIV Programming
- Our HIV programmes are integrated to reach and meet the diverse needs of PLHIV and affected communities.
- Our HIV programmes raise awareness and build the capacity of communities to respond to HIV.
- We advocate for an enabling environment that protects and promotes the rights of PLHIV and affected communities and supports effective HIV programmes.
- We provide and/or advocate for voluntary counselling and testing services that are accessible and confidential.
- We provide and/or advocate for comprehensive HIV prevention programmes to meet the variety of needs of individuals and communities.
- Our HIV prevention programmes enable individuals to develop the skills to protect themselves and/or others from HIV infection.
- Our HIV prevention programmes ensure that individuals have access to and information about the use of commodities to prevent HIV infection.
- We provide and/or advocate for comprehensive harm reduction programmes for people who inject drugs.
- We provide and/or advocate for comprehensive treatment, care and support programmes.
- We enable PLHIV and affected communities to meet their treatment, care and support needs.
- We enable PLHIV and affected communities to understand their rights and respond to discrimination and its consequences.
- We monitor and respond to systemic discrimination.
- We enable communities to understand and address HIV-related stigma.
- We foster partnerships with human rights institutions, legal services and unions to promote and protect the human rights of PLHIV and affected communities.
Mainstreaming HIV
- We review our development and humanitarian programmes to assess their relevance to reducing vulnerability to HIV infection and addressing the consequences of HIV.
- We work in partnerships to maximise the access of PLHIV and affected communities to an integrated range of programmes to meet their needs.
- We design or adapt development programmes to reduce vulnerability to HIV infection and meet the needs of PLHIV and affected communities.
- We ensure that our humanitarian programmes reduce vulnerability to HIV infection and address the needs of PLHIV and affected communities.
- Our programmes for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV (OVC) are child-centred, family- and community-focused and rights-based.
- We advocate for an environment that supports effective mainstreaming of HIV.
- We advocate for an enabling environment that addresses the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV.