Box 7.2, Key information required for decision-making and planning - Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations

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Box 7.2Key information required for decision-making and planning

Information required	Source of information (see also Box 7.4)
Key population size	population size estimation
HIV prevalence among key populations	sero-surveillance
Key population location/geographic distribution	mapping exercises
Key population characteristics, risk behaviours and health concerns	demographic surveys behavioural surveys general health surveys
Important structural factors, barriers to implementing a response to HIV, and the needs of key populations	audit of current legislation, policy and practice consultation with community members, community-led organizations and other stakeholders behavioural surveys
Accessibility, coverage, quality, outcome and impact of intervention	programmatic (administrative) data disease notification registries integrated bio-behavioural surveys. (See Box 7.3 for further description of national programme monitoring and evaluation framework.)

Rapid assessment and response guides are available to help guide initial and ongoing assessments, using multiple methods to gather data and to conduct analyses at multiple levels:

Rapid assessment and response adaptation guide on HIV and men who have sex with men. Geneva: WHO; 2002. http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/prev_care/en/msmrar.pdf?ua=1.
The rapid assessment and response guide on injecting drug use (IDU-RAR). Geneva: WHO; 1998. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/en/IDURARguideEnglish.pdf?ua=1.
The rapid assessment and response guide on psychoactive substance use and sexual risk behaviour (SEX-RAR). Geneva: WHO; 2002. http://www.who.int/entity/mental_health/media/en/686.pdf?ua=1.
Rapid assessment and response adaptation guide for work with especially vulnerable young people. Geneva: WHO; 2004. http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/prev_care/en/youngpeoplerar.pdf?ua=1.

From: 7, DEVELOPING THE RESPONSE: THE DECISION-MAKING, PLANNING AND MONITORING PROCESS

Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations – 2016 Update.

Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016.

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