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CLAC's Resource Library contains many resources on key populations. To make a general search, add your keywords to the Search box 
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Communities Deliver: the Critical Role of Communities in Reaching Global Targets to End the AIDS Epidemic
This report draws on multiple sources that document the many ways in which communities are advancing the response to AIDS, and the evidence for the effectiveness of these responses. Core areas of community-based activities include advocacy, service provision, community based research and financing are illustrated by innovative examples of community-based actions.
Decisiones Difíciles: Una Herramienta para Proveedores de Apoyo para la Salud o Servicios Sociales
Un grupo de trabajo internacional ha llenado un vacío de programación mundial con el lanzamiento de una herramienta de toma de decisiones ética probado y validado para su uso en las organizaciones basadas en la comunidad del VIH. La herramienta, llamada ' decisiones difíciles ', es el resultado de un riguroso proceso de tres años, y está diseñado para un empleado o compañero trabajador de apoyo para utilizar cuando se enfrentan a un dilema ético.
Décisions difficiles: Un outil pour la prise de décisions éthiques à l’intention des personnes aidantes
Un groupe de travail international a comblé une lacune de programmation globale avec la sortie d'un outil de prise de décision éthique testé et validé pour utilisation dans les organisations communautaires liés au VIH. L'outil, appelé 'décisions difficiles,' est le résultat d' un processus rigoureux de trois ans, et est conçu pour un travailleur de soutien employé ou pairs à utiliser lorsqu'ils sont confrontés à un dilemme éthique.
Difficult Decisions: A Tool for Care Workers
An international working group has filled a global programming gap with the release of a tested and validated ethical decision-making tool for use in community-based HIV organizations. The tool, called ‘Difficult Decisions’, is the result of a rigorous three-year process, and is designed for an employee or peer support worker to use when faced with an ethical dilemma.
Economic Empowerment Programmes for Sex Workers: Africa Regional Report
This regional report evaluates both successful and failed economic empowerment programmes by sex worker-led organisations and non-sex worker-led organisations. The aim of the report was to document the lessons learnt and good practice examples to help build and strengthen the capacity of sex worker organisations working to promote the human rights of sex workers and to document sex worker-led responses in Africa.
Gender & Sexual Diversity Training: A Facilitator's Guide for Public Health and HIV Programs
This version of the Gender & Sexual Diversity Training curriculum was developed specifically for PEPFAR staff and their country-level implementing partners to help country programs understand and address the needs of gender and sexual minority communities in the context of HIV programming, U.S. workplace policy on non-discrimination, and through a human rights lens.
A slide deck that accompanies this resource.
Gender & Sexual Diversity Training: A Facilitator's Guide for Public Health and HIV Programs (Slide Deck)
This slide deck to the Gender & Sexual Diversity Training curriculum was developed specifically for PEPFAR staff and their country-level implementing partners to help country programs understand and address the needs of gender and sexual minority communities in the context of HIV programming, U.S. workplace policy on non-discrimination, and through a human rights lens. The guide was developed by the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded Health Policy Project, in coordination with a U.S. Government inter-agency team made up of members of the PEPFAR Key Populations Working Group and the PEPFAR Gender Technical Working Group.
Global Action with Local Impact: Why Advocacy Matters
The report details strategies used and outcomes achieved by five constituency-led global network organizations focused on key populations, providing numerous case study examples illustrating the concrete impact of advocacy at the global level.
Global Fund Updates CCM Guidelines and Requirements for 2015: New Opportunities for Key Population Advocacy
This alert provides information and practical guidance for civil society organizations and key population networks on the updated country coordinating mechanism (CCM) Eligibility Requirements which came into effect January 1, 2015. The alert is also available in French, Russian, and Spanish.
GMT Fact Sheet: Acute HIV Infection
Designed for peer educators/navigators and community activists, this fact sheet offers current information regarding acute HIV infection among gay men, other MSM, and trans individuals. It is available in English, French, and Spanish.
GMT Fact Sheet: Country Ownership - the Shifting Strategies of Development Assistance
Designed for peer educators/navigators and community activists, this fact sheet offers current information regarding the trend towards "country ownership" of development assistance, a strategy that may proove challenging for organizations led by and serging gay men, other MSM and trans individuals. The fact sheet is also available in French and Spanish.
GMT Fact Sheet: Patient Navigation
Designed for peer educators/navigators and community activists, this fact sheet offers current information regarding community-led patient navigation services for gay men, other MSM and trans individuals. The fact sheet is also available in French and Spanish.
HIV and Young Transgender People: Technical Brief
This brief, one of four in a series, aims to catalyse and inform discussions about how best to provide health services, programmes, and support for young transgender people.
How AIDS Changed Everything: MDG 6 Report
A comprehensive report on the AIDS response over the last 15 years. It includes lessons learned, challenges and gaps that remain, and actions for the future. The majority of information on gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender people can be found in the "Key Populations" chapter, beginning on page 342.
Justice Programs for Public Health: A Good Practice Guide
Justice Programs for Public Health: A Good Practice Guide is a comprehensive tool both for justice organizations and funders interested in addressing pressing public health needs, and public health groups and funders that recognize justice is as critical to public health as medicine.
