Guideline development group and steering group

Co-chairs: Chris Beyrer (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA) and Adeeba Kamarulzaman (University of Malaya, Malaysia).

Elie Aaraj^# (Middle East & North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENAHRA), Lebanon), Eliot Albers^* (The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), United Kingdom), George Ayala^* (The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), USA), Carlos F. Cáceres (Sexuality and Human Development, Cayetano Heredia University, Peru), Kate Montecarlo Cordova^# (Association of Transgender People in the Philippines (A.T.P), Philippines), Tetiana Deshko^# (International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine), Daouda Diouf^# (Enda Santé, Senegal), Zoë Dodd^# (The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), Canada), Frits van Griensven (Thai Red Cross Society, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Mengjie Han^# (National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China CDC, People's Republic of China), Ralf Jürgens (Open Society Foundations, USA), Mehdi Karkouri^# (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd, Morocco), JoAnne Keatley (Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, USA), Anita Krug^# (Youth RISE, Australia), Joep Lange^* (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Keletso Makofane^# (The Global Forum on MSM and HIV, South Africa), Jessie Mbwambo^# (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania), Fabio Mesquita (Ministry of Health, Brazil), Noah Metheny^* (The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), USA), Ruth Morgan Thomas (Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), United Kingdom), Debbie Muirhead (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Indonesia), Patrick Mutua Mburugu (Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation, Kenya), Ed Ngoksin (Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+), South Africa), Sam Nugraha^# (Community Based Treatment (Rumah Singgah PEKA), Indonesia), Tonia Poteat (Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), USA), Ganesh Ramakrishnan (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, India) and Sushena Reza-Paul^# (University of Manitoba, Canada; Ashodaya Samithi, India).

Contributors to the GRADE systematic reviews

Caitlin Kennedy and Virginia Fonner (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA) and Nandi Siegfried (independent clinical epidemiologist, South Africa).

Contributors to supporting evidence

Sonya Arreola, George Ayala, Jack Beck, Keletso Makofane (The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), USA), Margaret Harris (WHO consultant), Mary Henderson (WHO consultant), Mira Schneiders (WHO consultant), Amee Schwitters (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) and Kate Welch (WHO consultant).

External peer reviewers

Peter Aggleton (Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Australia), Eliot Albers (The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), United Kingdom), George Ayala (The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), USA), Sylvia Ayon (Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, Kenya), Stef Baral (Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA), Taib Basheeib (Reachout Center Trust, Kenya), Nicholas Bates (The Albion Centre, Australia), Parinita Bhattacharjee (University of Manitoba, Kenya, and National AIDS and STI Control Programme Technical Support Unit (NASCOP TSU), Kenya), Sha'ari bin Ngadiman (Ministry of Health, Malaysia), Jamie Bridge (International Drug Policy Consortium, United Kingdom), Jude Byrne (International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), Australia), Gabriela Calazans (School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Brazil), Mohamed Chakroun (Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir, Tunisia), Xiang-Sheng Chen (National Center for Sexually Transmitted Disease Control, People's Republic of China), Mauro Cabral (GATE - Global Action for Trans* Equality, Argentina), Mean Chhi Vun (National Centre for HIV and STI prevention and Control, Cambodia), Joy Cunningham (FHI360, USA), Louisa Degenhardt (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), University of New South Wales, Australia), Justus Eisfeld (GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality, USA), Benham Farhoudi (Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Iran), Naomi Fontanos (Gender and Development Advocates (GANDA) Filipinas, Philippines), Le Minh Giang (Center for Research and Training on HIV/AIDS, Viet Nam), George Githuka (Ministry of Health, Kenya), Kimberly Green (FHI360, Ghana), Bikash Gurung (Youth RISE, Nepal), Wisal Hassan (Health Alliance International, Sudan), Lee Hertel (The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), USA), Chad Hughes (Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute, Australia), Smarajit Jana (Sonagachi Research and Training Institute, India), Manhong Jia (Yunnan AIDS/STI Centre, People's Republic of China), Jeremiah Johnson (Treatment Action Group, USA), Kianoush Kamali (National AIDS Control Programme, Iran), John Kashiha (Tanzania Sisi Kwa Sisi Foundation, Tanzania), Deanna Kerrigan (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA), Nduku Kilonzo (Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment (LVCT), Kenya), Nataliia Kitsenko (The Way Home NGO, Ukraine), Kelika A. Konda (University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru), Bram Langen (COC Nederland, Netherlands), Biangtung Langkham (Project ORCHID, Emmanuel Hospital Association, India), Joseph Tak Fai Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China), Anthony Lisle (UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific, Thailand), Lisa Maher (Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, University of New South Wales, Australia), Samuel Matsikure (Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), Zimbabwe), Marden Marques Soares Filho (Ministério da Saúde, Brazil), Susie McLean (International HIV/AIDS Alliance, United Kingdom), Ellen Mitchell (KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Netherlands), Jason Mitchell (Oceania Society for Sexual Health and HIV Medicine, Fiji), Joseph Ngua Mombo (Sex Worker Outreach Programme (SWOP), Kenya), Jules Mugabo (WHO Rwanda), Lillian Mworeko (International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW Eastern Africa), Uganda), Isidore Obot (University of Uyo, Nigeria), Dédé Oetomo (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM), Indonesia), Nittaya Phanuphak (Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Thailand), Midnight Poonkasetwattana (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM), Thailand), Made Yogi Oktavian Prasetia (Bali Medika Clinic, Indonesia), Anita Radix (Callen Lorde Community Health Center, USA), Kevin Rebe (ANOVA Health Institute, South Africa), Helen Rees (Wits Reproductive and HIV Research Institute, South Africa), Gary Reid (independent consultant, India), Kirill Sabir (FtM Phoenix Group, Russia), Bettina Schunter (independent consultant, Pakistan), Sopheap Seng (National Center for HIV/AIDS, Cambodia), Maninder Singh Setia (consultant dermatologist and epidemiologist, India), Sally Shackleton (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), South Africa), Kate Shannon (British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada), Oscar Ozmund Simooya (The Copper Belt University, Zambia), Tim Sladden (United Nations Population Fund, Turkey), Mat Southwell (Coact, United Kingdom), Rosario Jessica Tactacan-Abrenica (San Lazaro Hospital, Philippines), Siti Nadia Tarmizi (Ministry of Health, Indonesia), Pham Thi Minh (Viet Nam Network of People who Use Drugs (VNPUD), Viet Nam), Marguerite Thiam-Niangoin (Ministère de la santé et de la lutte contre le SIDA, Côte d'Ivoire), Tengiz Tsertsvadze (AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center, Georgia), Bea Vuylsteke (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium), Darshana Vyas (Pathfinder International, India), Daniel Wolfe (Open Society Foundations, USA), William Chi Wai Wong (The University of Hong Kong, China) and Tariq Zafar (Nai Zindagi, Pakistan).

Representatives of UN agencies and other partners

Jenny Butler (United Nations Population Fund, USA), Monica Ciupagea (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria), Clifton Cortez (United Nations Development Programme Asia–Pacific Regional Centre, Thailand), Karl Dehne (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Switzerland), Mauro Guarinieri (The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Switzerland), Fabienne Hariga (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria), Michel Kazatchkine (UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Switzerland) and Mariângela Simão (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Switzerland).

WHO staff and consultants

The following WHO staff members contributed to developing these guidelines: Avni Amin (Department of Reproductive Health and Research), Annabel Baddeley (Global Tuberculosis Programme), Nathalie Broutet (Department of Reproductive Health and Research), Nicolas Clark (Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse), Meg Doherty (Department of HIV), Martin Donoghoe (Regional Office for Europe), Philippa Easterbrook (Global Hepatitis Programme), Jane Ferguson (Department of Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health), Nathan Ford (Department of HIV), Mary Lyn Gaffield (Department of Reproductive Health and Research), Raul Gonzalez-Montero (Department of HIV), Joumana Hermez (Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean), Knut Lonnroth (Global TB programme), Rafael Mazin (Regional Office for the Americas), Eyerusalem Negussie (Department of HIV), Lisa Nelson (Department of HIV), Susan Norris (Secretariat to the Guidelines Review Committee), Martina Penazzato (Department of HIV), Nathan Shaffer (Department of HIV), Marco Vitoria (Department of HIV), Teodora Wi (Department of Reproductive Health and Research), Stefan Wiktor (Global Hepatitis Programme), Kouadio Yeboue (AFRO Inter-country Support Team for West Africa) and Pengfei Zhao (Regional Office for the Western Pacific).

Special thanks to the following WHO consultants who contributed to the writing, coordination and research for the guidelines: Cadi Irvine, Alice Armstrong, Bradley Mathers, Michelle Rodolph, Amee Schwitters (CDC), and Graham Shaw. The following WHO consultants were also involved in developing these guidelines: Katie Curran, Cheryl Johnson and Kevin O'Reilly. Interns who supported the process: Carmen Figueroa, Pramudie Gunaratne and George Mugambi.

WHO administrative support was provided by Nadia Hilal McDonald; and communication support was provided by Glenn Thomas and Oyuntungalag Namjilsuren. Ward Rinehart and Sarah Johnson (Jura Editorial Services) edited the document.

Overall coordination

Rachel Baggaley coordinated the overall guideline development process with Annette Verster and Cadi Irvine, under the supervision of Andrew Ball and Gottfried Hirnschall (Department of HIV).

Funding

The Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) provided the funding to support this work, including the systematic reviews of evidence, evidence compilation, convening of the expert meeting, and development, editing, and printing of the guidelines. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provided funding for the background work on transgender populations.