Resource library.
A living page of resources related to men and HIV.
Formative Research
Differentiated Care
The International AIDS Society (IAS) developed the Differentiated Care website in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF), the World Bank, the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), and members of several ministries of health. The compendium website contains tools and evidence endorsed for use by national HIV programmes and country implementing partners supported by the agencies engaged in its development.
HIV Coverage, Quality, and Impact Network
CQUIN is a network of countries and stakeholders dedicated to improving HIV service delivery by advancing Differentiated Service Delivery. CQUIN is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The network includes representatives from ministries of health, national networks of people living with HIV, donors and bilateral agencies, implementing partners, and other stakeholders.
Breaking the Cycle of Transmission Project
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by PSI, Ipsos, and Matchboxology. https://www.prepwatch.org/resource/breaking-cycle-transmission/
Addressing a blind spot in the response to HIV — Reaching out to men and boys
Journals and Academic Publications
Barnabas, Ruanne V. et al. “Lottery incentives have short‐term impact on ART initiation among men: results from a randomized pilot study” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25519
Bhattacharjee, Parinita et al. “HIV prevalence, testing and treatment among men who have sex with men through engagement in virtual sexual networks in Kenya: a cross‐sectional bio‐behavioural study” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25516
Colvin, Cristopher, J. “Strategies for engaging men in HIV services” Lancet HIV (2019). https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanhiv/PIIS2352-3018(19)30032-3.pdf
Decroo, Tom et al. “Effect of community ART groups on retention-in-care among patients on ART in Tete province, Mozambique: a cohort study”. BMJ Open (2017) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629627/pdf/bmjopen-2017-016800.pdf
Dovel, K. “Men’s use of facility-based health services in Malawi.” Presentation during ICASA 2019 satellite “Closing the gap on reach men: Time for Action”. December 2019, Rwanda.
Dovel, Kathryn et al.. “Facility-based HIV self-testing for outpatients dramatically increases HIV testing in Malawi: a cluster randomized trial.” Lancet Global Health (2020) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30534-0/fulltext
Dovel, Kathryn et al. “Gendered health institutions: examining the organization of health services and men’s use of HIV testing in Malawi” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25517
Dovel Katherine et al. “Men’s heightened risk of AIDS-related death: the legacy of gendered HIV testing and treatment strategies” AIDS. (2015). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4454403/
Gottert, Ann et al. “Creating HIV risk profiles for men in South Africa: a latent class approach using cross-sectional survey data” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25518
Grimsrud, Anna, James Ayieko and Tanya Shewchuk. “Shifting the Narrative from ‘The missing men’ to ‘We are missing the men’” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25526
Grimsrud, Anna et al. “Community-based adherence clubs for the management of stable antiretroviral therapy patients in Cape Town, South Africa: A cohort study. JAIDS, (2016). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26473798/
Hensen, Bernadette et al. “Systematic review of strategies to increase men’s HIV-testing in sub-Saharan Africa” AIDS 28.14 (2014). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25062091/
Higgins, Jenny A., Susie Hoffman and Shari L. Dworkin. “Rethinking Gender, Heterosexual Men, and Women’s Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS “American Journal of Public Health (2009). https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2009.159723
Journal of the International AIDS Society, “Realizing the potential of HIV self-testing for Africa: lessons learned from the STAR project” Volume 22, Supplement 1, March 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17582652/2019/22/S1
Makusha, Tawanda, Heidi van Rooyen and Morna Cornell “Reframing the approach to heterosexual men in the HIV epidemic in sub‐Saharan Africa” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25510
Mooney, Alyssa C. et al. “Men’s Perceptions of Treatment as Prevention in South Africa: Implications for Engagement in HIV Care and Treatment” AIDS Prevention and Education 29.3 (2017). p. 274. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686680/
Mwango, Linah K. et al. “Index and targeted community‐based testing to optimize HIV case finding and ART linkage among men in Zambia” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25520
Napierala, Sue et al.“Male partner testing and sexual behaviour following provision of multiple HIV self‐tests to Kenyan women at higher risk of HIV infection in a cluster randomized trial” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25515
Nhassengo, Pedroso et al. “Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of universal treatment in Mozambique: a qualitative study on patient and provider perceptions” PLoS ONE. 13(12): e0205919. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306230/
Orr, Neil et al. “Development of a National Campaign Addressing South African Men’s Fears About HIV Counseling and Testing and Antiretroviral Treatment” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 74.1 (2017). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5147035/
Osler, Meg et al. “lPopulation‐wide differentials in HIV service access and outcomes in the Western Cape for men as compared to women, South Africa: 2008 to 2018: a cohort analysis” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25530
Poulin, Michelle, Kathryn Dovel and Susan Watkins. 2016. “Men with money and the ‘vulnerable women’ client category in an AIDS epidemic.” World Development. 85; 16-30 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X16303618
Shapiro, Adrienne et al. “An implementation study of oral and blood‐based HIV self‐testing and linkage to care among men in rural and peri‐urban KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25514
Sharma, Monisha et al. “Community-based strategies to strengthen men’s engagement in the HIV care cascade in sub-Saharan Africa” PLOS Medicine (2017). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28399122/
Sileo, Katelyn M. “What Role Do Masculine Norms Play in Men’s HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa?: A Scoping Review” AIDS and Behavior (2018) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29777420.
Stender, Stacie C and Aleish Rozario. “‘‘Khotla Bophelong Bo Botle’: a gathering of men for health” Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17582652/2020/23/S2?utm_campaign=4155e81b63-men-and-hiv-supplement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=JIAS&utm_term=0_2d3aa1a152-4155e81b63-104008713
Tibbels, Natalie Jean et al. “Men’s perceptions of HIV care engagement at the facility- and provider-levels: Experiences in Cote d’Ivoire”. PLoS ONE (2019) . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211385.
Tsondai, PR et al. “High rates of retention and viral suppression in the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy adherence clubs in Cape Town, South Africa”. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.7448/IAS.20.5.21649
Wilkinson, Lynne et al. “Expansion of the Adherence Club model for stable antiretroviral therapy patients in the Cape Metro, South Africa 2011–2015”. Tropical Medicine and International Health (2016). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tmi.12699