This English version incorporates suggestions and recommendations made by the participants at the Trinidad meeting to ensure its cultural relevance for the Caribbean and the Anglophone readers in general.

This global report is based on 59 countries that reported data from more than 12 000 clinics from cohorts of patients receiving ART between 2004 and 2014. The report includes the most recent clinic-level data reported to WHO in 2015 –2016 and reflects a lag due to the 12 month cohort reporting period.

This second HIVDR report provides an update on recent population levels of HIVDR covering the period 2014–2016. The report includes data from 16 nationally representative surveys from 14 countries estimating resistance in: adults initiating ART (PDR), children younger than 18 months newly diagnosed with HIV, and adults on ART (acquired HIV drug resistance or ADR).

Conciente del problema y de la responsabilidad social que tienen las universidades de contribuir al combate de la problemática de VIH y sida, la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) y la Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Facultades y Escuelas de Medicina (ALAFEM), promovieron un proceso de investigación en las facultades de medicina de América Latina y el Caribe.

El presente documento resume las discusiones y recomendaciones más significativas surgidas de la “Consulta Regional sobre Promoción de la Salud y Provisión de Cuidados para Hombres que tienen Sexo con Hombres (HSH) en América Latina y el Caribe”.

WHO is accountable for reporting back to the World Health Assembly on progress in implementing the Global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections based on data received from countries. This report assesses the mid-term progress in 2019 in implementing these global health sector strategies from 2016 to 2021.

Este documento refleja las recomendaciones surgidas de la “Consulta regional sobre promoción de la salud y provisión de cuidados para hombres que tienen sexo con hombres (HSH) en América Latina y el Caribe”.

Este informe aparece más de tres años después de que los países de América Latina y el Caribe se comprometieran con la meta de acceso universal para la prevención, el tratamiento, la atención y el apoyo de las personas con VIH, tal como se estableció en la Reunión de Alto Nivel de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas sobre el VIH/SIDA en 2006.

New WHO interim guidelines contain recommendations regarding preferred first-line regimens for adults, adolescents and children initiating ART, which now include DTG and RAL.

An increasing number of countries are adopting policies endorsing PrEP for HIV prevention. Emerging evidence from clinical research that different dosing strategies can be effective provides an opportunity to offer flexibility, choice and convenience to individuals who can benefit from PrEP and is considered by WHO in updating its guidance to countries.