Good Practice Guide: Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA)

This guide has been produced by the Alliance and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+). It is one in a series of good practice guides produced by the Alliance. This series brings together contributions from Alliance's global community-level HIV programming to define and guide good practice in a range of technical areas. While the guide is focused on the programme level, it may also be useful for enhancing the involvement of people living with HIV in policy processes and research, and can be applied to many different contexts. The guide is also relevant to programme officers working on other global health issues, particularly tuberculosis.

The guide is written for non-governmental organisation HIV support programmes, citizen-based organisations, training organisations, and individual trainers. This Good Practice Guide contains information, strategies, and resources to help programme officers meet the "good practice" standards and translate the principle of greater involvement of people living with HIV (GIPA) into practice at programme level. The good practice standards, as stated in the guide, are:

• "Good practice standard 1 - Our organization is committed to ensure equal and full participation of all stakeholders, especially potential programme beneficiaries, at all stages of the programme cycle.
• Good practice standard 2 - Our organization is committed to the effective implementation of the GIPA principle throughout all areas of our organization.
• Good practice standard 3 - Our programmes promote and provide an enabling and protected environment to facilitate the participation of people living with HIV."

Editor's note, February 10 2020: Apologies, but this guide no longer seems to be available online.