New HIV prevention technologies

Going Online is a vision and evolving framework for how HIV programs can use online and mobile platforms to accelerate impact toward meeting their HIV education, prevention, testing and treatment objectives. The LINKAGES project developed this vision to help populations facing the greatest HIV risks make connections to life-affirming and lifesaving services in an increasingly connected world. The vision will also help other stakeholders in the HIV response, including governments and community organizations seeking to modernize and diversify approaches, to reach and engage people in HIV services in ways that meet their needs and preferences.

The guidance presented in this document is intended for digital health intervention designers, developers, implementers, researchers and funders. Newcomers to digital health can use it as a start-to-finish primer on how to collaboratively and responsibly develop youth-centred digital health interventions. Those already engaged in this work can jump directly to the chapters and sections with the ideas and resources they need. Funders will find helpful advice in Annex 1, which outlines special considerations for making smarter, more meaningful investments in digital health interventions for young people.

This practical Guide serves as a companion to the “WHO guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening” and provides a systematic process for countries to develop a costed implementation plan for digital health within one or more health programme areas, drawing guidance from the WHO guideline–recommended digital health interventions, providing direction to ensure investments are needs-based and contribute effective and interoperable systems aligned with national digital architecture, country readiness, health system and policy goals.

ICT holds the potential to drive measurable programmatic improvements across the cascade of HIV prevention, care and treatment services: it can collect and disseminate information, link virtual content to physical services and complement offline components of HIV programmes.

This information note provides a strategic overview of key implementation considerations for diagnostic integration using these devices, and is primarily intended for use by national laboratory services and TB, HIV, and hepatitis programme managers.

Status of select biomedical HIV prevention clinical trials