Improving Access to HIV Services in Humanitarian Contexts: New Strategies and Approaches

8/11/2020
By IAWG STI/HIV Sub-Working Group

Session Recording

Video

HIV prevention and treatment are key components of a comprehensive SRH service package. Unfortunately, in humanitarian contexts worldwide, HIV services are historically under-prioritized, often at the expense of already marginalized populations. In this webinar, we begin understanding some of the ways the humanitarian community can integrate HIV prevention and treatment services into existing SRH services, especially those supporting marginalized populations. This panel featured speakers from Bangladesh, Tanzania, and Uganda, and include discussions on the health and protection needs of refugees involved in selling sex, the outcomes of prevention of mother to child transmission intervention in a post-emergency refugee context, partner testing in a refugee setting, and adolescent SRH stigma and HIV testing among urban and displaced youth.

Panelists

Sandra Harlass, UNHCR Addressing the health and protection needs of Rohingya refugee women, men, and transgender involved in selling sex.
Tessa van Boekholt, UNHCR Outcomes of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) program in a post-emergency refugee context, Northern Uganda.
Miata Tubee Johnson, UNHCR Improving HIV partner testing in a refugee emergency: a case study of Nyarugusu refugee camp in the Republic of Tanzania.
Carmen Logie, University of Toronto Exploring associations between adolescent sexual and reproductive health stigma and HIV testing awareness and uptake among urban refugee and displaced youth in Kampala, Uganda.

Moderator

Tim Sladden, Senior Advisor in the SRH Branch of UNFPA

About the Series

This webinar was recorded on August 11, 2020, as a part of the Streaming IAWG 2020: Webinar Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. This webinar series features panels that were planned for the IAWG meeting, originally scheduled for February 2020 in Bangkok. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this in-person meeting was canceled. These digital webinars share the panels in support of this year's intended theme: Bridging the Divide: Operationalizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Nexus, which asked presenters to share findings and lessons learned from working on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) at the intersections of the humanitarian, development and peace sectors.

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