Big data tells us far too little about HIV negative people in key populations. This infographic from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People, proposes the development of a Prevention Data Dashboard that would guide the field toward a deeper understanding of how to reach high-risk populations and keep them HIV negative. The dashboard would create a toolbox of visual data on referral rates, characteristics of high-risk populations, and the uptake and success of different prevention strategies.
Prevention Data Dashboards: A Key Tool for Impact on the Epidemic
Progress in VMMC Projected Through 2015
VMMC is falling short of the target. Global figures for VMMC puts the number of VMMC in 14 key countries at 11.7 million—only 60 percent of the 2015 goal of 20 million. Excerpted from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People.
Responsible Data
In today’s world, effective data examines enormous volumes of sensitive and personal information. Data must be collected and handled in accordance with a fundamental respect for individual privacy, dignity and safety. Excerpted from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People.
Talking about Revolutions: Definitions of Data-Driven Changes
With an explosion in the volume of data, the speed at which data are produced and the range of subjects on which there is data, we need to define some terms.
UNAIDS 2016-2021 Strategy: What Does it Say about Prevention?
The current UNAIDS strategy calls for an end to HIV-related discrimination and fewer than 500,000 annual deaths from AIDS. Out of ten highlighted targets within the strategy, three center on prevention tools. Excerpted from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People.
Key Population and Data Gaps
In too many countries and communities around the world key populations, including gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, sex workers and people who inject drugs are subject to what Johns Hopkins researcher and advocate Stefan Baral terms “the data paradox”, meaning there “there is the least amount of data characterizing the needs of gay men and other MSM in the most stigmatizing settings.”
This graphic was excerpted from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People.
Gender Binaries and Competition for Resources
In the past year, as focus has rightly been placed on the needs of adolescent girls and young women, some stakeholders have suggested that men are being left behind. The offers a perfect example of data that prompt counterproductive action. Men aren’t being left behind. Both men and women, and boys and girls, are underserved in different ways.
This graphic was excerpted from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People.
Unnecessary Confusion on Hormonal Contraception and HIV: WHO must act now
The question of whether specific contraceptive methods, particularly the injectable progestogen-only method known as DMPA or Depo-Provera, affect women’s risk of HIV is complex and, for the moment, unanswered. And the WHO has added to the complexit with a layer of completely preventable confusion.
This graphic was excerpted from AVAC Report 2016: Big Data, Real People.
Microbicides by the Numbers: Science, products, money and more
The term “microbicide” refers to substances being studied that could be used in the vagina and/or rectum to reduce the risk of HIV infection via sexual exposure. There are no licensed microbicides available today. Simple, easy-to-use microbicides would help these individuals take control of their own health—while offering people everywhere an additional, needed option. The graphics below represent key facts about the microbicide field.
MPT Products in the Pipeline: Selected highlights
This table shows which MPTs are further along in testing for both sustained-release and on-demand products. Women will have different needs and preferences throughout their lives. An array of different types of products is key to meeting the varying needs of different women. Excerpted from the MPTs factsheet.