From the perspective of people living with HIV, Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention involves the following: a supportive legal and policy environment; focusing on holistic health promotion, not only on transmission prevention; tailored to setting, key populations, and to the individual; defined by people living with HIV. GNP+ aims to further develop the concept of Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention through regional consultations and operational research.

At a GNP+ and UNAIDS International Technical Consultation on ‘Positive Prevention’ in Tunisia in April 2009, networks of people living with HIV, civil society organisations, country programme implementers, as well as development, multilateral, UN and donor agencies met to develop the concept of ‘Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention’ and define its principles.

GNP+ will also develop its existing work on new prevention technologies and on treatment for prevention. Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention provides an opportunity to highlight the diverse health and prevention needs of HIV-positive individuals and is a useful lens through which to understand the important linkages between prevention, treatment, care, support and human rights.

Programmes under this theme are:

• Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention

• New Prevention Technologies


• ART for Prevention

• Operational Research