HIV surveillance
Understanding trends in HIV data is a cornerstone of the public health response to HIV. HIV surveillance brings together information from a range of sources to:
- estimate how many people are living with HIV;
- understand who is being infected and why; and
- assess the impact of HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services across different population groups.
This ongoing collection, analysis and dissemination of HIV data provides evidence for decision-making. It also tracks national and global progress towards the United Nations target to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
WHO provides support to Member States by characterizing the current epidemiology of HIV, reviewing surveillance approaches and methods, and producing strategic information guidelines.
Latest guidelines
Digital adaptation kit for HIV, second edition
To ensure that countries can effectively benefit from digital health investments, “digital adaptation kits” (DAKs) are designed to facilitate...
Policy briefs
Measuring HIV prevention programmes against health outcomes (such as individuals remaining HIV-negative or new HIV infections) can be challenging. This...
Policy brief on integrating and strengthening monitoring of differentiated ART service delivery
These recommendations include approaches for differentiated service delivery (DSD) of antiretroviral therapy (ART) that are less intensive and provide...
Policy brief on digital health data
The new Consolidated guidelines on person-centred HIV strategic information: strengthening routine data for impact 1 aim to help countries improve how...
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), viral hepatitis and cervical cancer are important concerns for any country implementing HIV programmes because...
Programmatic data routinely collected at service delivery sites can play an important role in the measuring and monitoring of HIV incidence and prevalence,...
Enhancing the monitoring of HIV testing and treatment
Person-centred monitoring generates individual level data to monitor the health status of people living with HIV over time and ensure the quality and continuity...
Technical documents
WHO Data quality assessment of national and partner monitoring data and system implementation tool –...
This technical brief summarizes key updates to the 2018 Data quality assessment of national and partner HIV treatment and patient monitoring data and systems...
Consolidated guidelines on person-centred HIV strategic information: strengthening routine data for impact
As the HIV response moves to focusing on closing the remaining gaps in prevention, testing and treatment services, an evolution in the underlying routine...
WHO recommends that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) be offered as an additional prevention choice for HIV-negative individuals at substantial risk of HIV...
In April 2020, new directions in global guidance for HIV strategic information and treatment monitoring were updated. This technical update outlines the...
Surveillance of HIV drug resistance in children newly diagnosed with HIV by early infant diagnosis
This concept note describes the methods used to assess the prevalence of any HIVDR and HIVDR by PMTCT exposure among children less than 18 months...
These guidelines consolidate guidance on monitoring systems for patients and all cases of HIV as part of public health surveillance. They recommend the...
Guidelines for conducting HIV surveillance among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics based on...
This document is written for national HIV surveillance programme staff responsible for monitoring trends in country HIV epidemics. Its purpose is to describe...
DHIS2 Case surveillance package for HIV surveillance
The WHO HIV Case Surveillance Tracker software package is designed to follow people living with HIV through their treatment and is based upon WHO standards and policy guidance. The package is based on the free and open-source District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) software platform and designed in collaboration with the WHO Global Programmes on HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections. It includes a Tracker program for recording of individual and longitudinal data on people living with HIV, including details on antiretroviral therapy, viral load testing, and TB preventive therapy. A set of dashboards and indicators aids users in monitoring the local epidemic based on case surveillance data and programmatic needs, and an aggregate dataset records national HIV estimates. The dashboard enables analysis along the cascade of HIV treatment interventions with benchmarks for reaching the global 95-95-95 targets.
This video is a webinar recording of the beta launch of this package, including an overview and demonstration of key features. For more information and downloadable software files, visit the DHIS2 website.
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