News & Events

The UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2021, launched in July, shows that many of the 19 countries that achieved the 90–90–90 targets by 2020 have been leaders in differentiated service delivery, where facility-based services are complemented by community-led services.

Discover the DSD policy dashboards report summarizing key elements of national DSD policies and adaptations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Access the ICAP Grand rounds recording on differentiated HIV service delivery and COVID-19: Resilience, innovation and lessons learned from 27 July.

Read this Devex article on how COVID-19 changed the approach to HIV.

Read our June 2021 DSD newsletter focusing on DSD for HIV treatment for pregnant and breastfeeding women and adolescent girls and sharing the latest DSD news, publications and upcoming events.

On 28 April 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) published updated recommendations on service delivery for the treatment and care of people living with HIV. New and updated recommendations are provided on differentiated service delivery for HIV treatment.

Register for the webinar, "Differentiated service delivery for HIV treatment and the new WHO service delivery guidelines in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic" on 19 August 2021 hosted by the decentralized drug distrubtion learning collaborative

Check out resources from DSD satellites and symposia, organized by IAS – the International AIDS Society - through its DSD programme, at the virtual IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2021), 18-21 July 2021.

Register for the CQUIN Network webinar on Advanced HIV Disease: Updates from the CQUIN Network, taking place on 3 August 2021.

Watch the recording of the EpiC Decentralized Drug Distribution (DDD) learning collaborative session which took place on 17 June.

Watch the recording of the webinar "Can Our Antiretroviral Therapy Supply Chain Support Truly Person-Centered DSD?" co-hosted by CQUIN and IAS, which took place on 4 May.

Effects of community-based antiretroviral therapy initiation models on HIV treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Eshun-Wilson I, et al. May 2021).

Evaluation of a community-based HIV test and start program in a conflict affected rural area of Yambio County, South Sudan (Ferreyra, C, et al. July 2021)

Dispensing antiretrovirals during Covid-19 lockdown: re-discovering community-based ART delivery models in Uganda (Zakumumpa, H, et al. July 2021)

Patient-incurred costs in a differentiated service delivery club intervention compared to standard clinical care in Northwest Tanzania (Okere, NE, et al. June 2021)

Expansion of a national differentiated service delivery model to support people living with HIV and other chronic conditions in South Africa: a descriptive analysis (Liu, L, et al., May 2021)

Acceleration of differentiated service delivery for HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa during COVID-19 (Grimsrud, A, and Wilkinson, L., June 2021).

Development, Assessment, and Outcomes of a Community-Based Model of Antiretroviral Care in Western Kenya Through a Cluster-Randomized Control Trial (Goodrich, S, et al. Jan 2021)

Reducing time to differentiated service delivery for newly diagnosed people living with HIV in Kigali, Rwanda: study protocol for a pilot, unblinded, randomised controlled study. (Ross, J, et al., April 2021)

Differentiated Service Delivery Models for HIV Treatment in Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia: A Landscape Analysis. (Huber, A, et al., May 2021)

Multimonth dispensing of up to 6 months of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi and Zambia (INTERVAL): a cluster-randomised, non-blinded, non-inferiority trial. (Hoffman, R, et al., May 2021)

Client and provider preferences for HIV care: Implications for implementing differentiated service delivery in Thailand. (Lujintanon, S, et al., April 2021)

Antiretroviral therapy dispensing for patients who are clinically stable. (Sibanda, E, and Taegtmeyer, M, May 2021)

Economic evaluation of differentiated service delivery models for HIV treatment in Lesotho: costs to providers and patients. (Nichols, B, et al., April 2021)

Turning threats into opportunities: how to implement and advance quality TB services for people with HIV during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond. (Roberts, T, et al., March 2021)

Expanding the Vision for Differentiated Service Delivery: A Call for More Inclusive and Truly Patient-Centered Care for People Living With HIV. (Ehrenkrantz P, et al., February 2021)