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Following new PrEP guidance from WHO, check out this brief to support countries to develop differentiated PrEP service delivery policies.

Check out the latest IAS DSD newsletter, focusing on DSD science at AIDS 2022 and hypertension care integration in DSD in Malawi.

All four modules available now! Check out the free DSD online course, developed by IAS - the International AIDS Society.

Watch this series of explainer videos outlining the standard operating procedures for the four common DSD models for HIV treatment and common adaptations for specific populations.

Register for a meeting from the South African Measurement and Surveillance of HIV Epidemics (MeSH) team on thinking epidemiologically about the HIV epidemic using routine data, with a focus on DSD. The meeting takes place virtually on 21 October at 2:00pm, Pretoria.

Check out the presentations of the AIDS 2022 DSD pre-conference meeting and DSD satellite sessions organized by the IAS.

Attrition from HIV care among youth initiating ART in youth-only clinics compared with general primary healthcare clinics in
Khayelitsha, South Africa: a matched propensity score analysis (Cassidy, T, et al. January 2022)

Assessment of a viral load result-triggered automated differentiated service delivery model for people taking ART in Lesotho (the VITAL study): Study protocol of a cluster-randomized trial (Tschumi N et al., May 2022)

Evaluation of HIV treatment outcomes with reduced frequency of clinical encounters and antiretroviral treatment refills: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Le Tourneau, N, et al. March 2022)

How community ART delivery may improve HIV treatment outcomes: Qualitative inquiry into mechanisms of effect in a randomized trial of community-based ART initiation, monitoring and re-supply (DO ART) in South Africa and Uganda (Gilbert, H, et al. October 2021)

Treatment outcomes among adults with HIV/non-communicable disease multimorbidity attending integrated care clubs in Cape Town, South Africa (Gausi, B, et al. October 2021)

Equity in access to long-acting injectables in the USA (Hojilla, J, et al. February 2022)

Attrition from HIV care among youth initiating ART in youth-only clinics compared with general primary healthcare clinics in Khayelitsha, South Africa: a matched propensity score analysis (Cassidy, T, et al. January 2022)

Uptake of community- versus clinic-based antiretroviral therapy dispensing in the Central Chronic Medication Dispensing and Distribution program in South Africa (Bassett, I, et al. January 2022)

Closing the gap: did delivery approaches complementary to home-based testing reach men with HIV testing services during and after the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial in Zambia? (Phiri, M, et al. January 2022)

Reaching the third 95 using community ART delivery models (Mubiana-Mbewe, M, November 2021)

Same‐day antiretroviral therapy initiation hub model at the Thai Red Cross Anonymous Clinic in Bangkok, Thailand: an observational cohort study (Seekaew, P, et al. December 2021)

How Home Delivery of Antiretroviral Drugs Ensured Uninterrupted HIV Treatment During COVID-19: Experiences From Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, and Nigeria (Hoke, T, et al. December 2021)

Mobile clinics in conflict-affected communities of North West and South West regions of Cameroon: an alternative option for differentiated delivery service for internally displaced persons during COVID-19 (Omam, LA, et al. December 2021)

Do differentiated service delivery models for HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa save money? Synthesis of evidence from field studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa in 2017-2019 (Rosen, S, et al. December 2021)

How Home Delivery of Antiretroviral Drugs Ensured Uninterrupted HIV Treatment During COVID-19: Experiences From Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, and Nigeria (Hoke, T, et al. September 2021)

Feasibility of a community-based delivery model for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among bar patrons in rural South Africa (Grammatico, M, et al. November 2021)

Rates of viral suppression in a cohort of people with stable HIV from two community models of ART delivery versus facility-based HIV care in Lusaka, Zambia: a cluster- randomised, non-inferiority trial nested in the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial (Limbada, M, et al. November 2021)

Novel Platforms for Biomedical HIV Prevention Delivery to Key Populations — Community Mobile Clinics, Peer-Supported, Pharmacy-Led PrEP Delivery, and the Use of Telemedicine (Rousseau, E, et al. October 2021)

Impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on HIV testing and care provision across four continents (Rick, F, et al. October 2021)

A community-based mobile clinic model delivering PrEP for HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa (Rousseau, E, et al. August 2021)

Why do patients interrupt and return to antiretroviral therapy? Retention in HIV care from the patient’s perspective in Johannesburg, South Africa (Bisnauth, MA, et al. September 2021)

A mixed-methods evaluation of the uptake of novel differentiated ART delivery models in a national sample of health facilities in Uganda (Zakumumpa, H, et al. August 2021).

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).

Initial implementation of PrEP in Zambia: health policy development and service delivery scale-up (Claassen, C, et al. Jul 2021).

Estimating the effect of increasing dispensing intervals on retention in care for people with HIV in Haiti (Parrish, C, et al. Aug 2021).

A mixed-methods evaluation of the uptake of novel differentiated ART delivery models in a national sample of health facilities in Uganda (Zakumumpa, H, et al. Jul 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)