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Key populations in sub-Saharan Africa: population size estimates and high risk behaviors
Abdul-Quader AS , Gouws-Williams E , Tlou S , Wright-De Aguero L , Needle R . AIDS Behav 2014 19 Suppl 1 S1-2 The expansion of antiretroviral treatment and other biomedical and behavioral interventions has slowed HIV transmission in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, populations at high risk of HIV infection including men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers (SWs) and people who inject drugs (PWID) have limited access to and uptake of these interventions due to structural factors, legal barriers, stigma and discrimination. Other challenges related to populations at high risk of HIV infection include the lack of accurate population size estimates to help measure program coverage and program reach, lack of good quality epidemiologic data on HIV prevalence and related behaviors at the national and sub-national levels, and lack of real time analysis of programmatic data to guide programming for an AIDS free generation. Increasingly, major funding agencies such as the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) have recognized population size estimates as an integral part of national and sub-national level strategic planning, target setting and for assessing HIV program results. Program implementers, policy makers and funding organizations have supported population size estimation activities and bio-behavioral surveys among MSM, PWID and SW in a number of countries, including countries with generalized as well as concentrated epidemics, to target and strengthen HIV prevention, care and treatment programming. |
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