OptTEST Training Tools & Case Studies

Training Tools

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Case studies on innovative advocacy strategies based on interviews with stakeholders

• Case study in England to advocate for equal and free HIV treatment for undocumented migrants
• Case study England and Wales to mitigate criminalisation of HIV transmission

HIV Testing Guidelines

• HIV TESTING GUIDELINES

National Specialty Guidelines - HIV Indicator Conditions

• Evaluation of HIV testing recommendations in specialty guidelines for the management of HIV indicator conditions (journal article)

Other National Guidelines & Policies

• Making it work: a guide to whole system commissioning for sexual health, reproductive health and HIV (NHS, 2015)
• Commissioning sexual health services and interventions: Best practice guidance for local authorities (NHS, 2015)
• HIV partner notification for adults: definitions, outcomes and standards (BHIVA, 2015)
• BASHH/EAGA statement on HIV window period (BASHH/EAGA, 2014)
• Standards of care for people living with HIV (BHIVA, 2013)
• Standards for psychological support for adults living with HIV (BHIVA, 2011)
• HIV testing: increasing update in black Africans (NICE, 2011)
• HIV testing: increasing uptake in men who have sex with men (NICE, 2011)

HIV Epidemiology

• HIV official statistics overview: 2016 (PHE, 2016)
• HIV in the UK: situation report 2015 (PHE, 2015)

HIV Testing Resources

• European HIV Test Finder

Other Relevant Links

• National AIDS Trust (UK's leading HIV/AIDS charity)
• Terrence Higgins Trust (advocacy, service provision)
• Stigma Index (GNP+)
• Stigma Survey UK (PHE)