Guidelines for addressing HIV in humanitarian settings

Provides strategies that can be put in place to coordinate the response to HIV in humanitarian settings. Reports that every year millions of people around the world are affected by humanitarian crisis both natural and human-made. Subsequently, the rising number of humanitarian crises increases vulnerability to HIV and affects people living with HIV negatively. Provides several action sheets on managing HIV in health settings such as provision of access to good quality condoms, management of sexually transmitted infections, strategies on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and provision of antiretroviral medication to those in need among other interventions. Provides guidance on how to ensure food security, nutrition and livelihood support in such settings, protection of orphans and other vulnerable children and youth, and promoting access to relevant and protective education for all vulnerable persons in humanitarian settings.