Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention

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.

Human Rights & Stigma

To address the human rights of people living with HIV, GNP+ is working on three major programmes with the aim of enabling people living with HIV to fight stigma and discrimination and enjoy full human rights. These programmes are mainly directed to evidence collection. HIV-related stigma and discrimination are widely recognized as barriers to accessing HIV prevention, treatment and care services. Without concerted action, the goal of universal access will be impossible to achieve.

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Through different programmes GNP+ advocates for people living with HIV to be able to strive towards enjoying  full, pleasurable sex lives and have access to a range of reproductive options. GNP+ continues to build evidence on the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of People living with HIV and whether or not their needs are being appropriately met. GNP+ is proactively engaging with key populations of people living with HIV to understand the context in which sexual and reproductive health and rights are enabled or denied to document the realities of individual lived experience of PLHIV around the world.

Empowerment of People living with HIV and their networks

Under the theme of Empowerment GNP+ programmes aim to ensure that people living with HIV are involved in all decision-making processes that affect their lives. People living with HIV have unique expertise to bring to the table – to inform governments where and how programmes can be strengthened and improved. It is therefore important to increase the skills of many more people living with HIV so that they have the confidence to speak out in key decision-making forums. Continuous support is needed for and by people living with HIV to implement greater and more meaningfull involvement of  people living with HIV in the HIV response.

PLHIV Network Development Support

GNP+ supports the development of networks of people living with HIV in different ways, for example by supporting people living with HIV to develop, strengthen and professionalise their networks.

GNP+ organisational documents

GNP+ is an international network of networks of people living with HIV, aiming to be accountable and transparent as one of the leading organisations from the global movement of people living. GNP+ is connected with people living with HIV worldwide in many different ways and feels it is important for people to be able to find out how GNP+ works and why GNP+ does its work in the way it does, in different ways.

Regional Resources

GNP+ key partners are the six regional networks of people living with HIV which GNP+ helped found and make independent. GNP+ works closely with the regional networks to guide the development of the GNP+ programmes and their relevance and application at regional level.

The regional networks cover the regions Africa, Asia Pacific, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and North America. In this section we shares some of the resources produced by the regional networks.