1. Facilitator Notes: Explain that this presentation provides a brief introduction to the global framework of Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (PHDP) and guide participants through the slide deck.

2. Introduction
A strategy that encompasses the three main areas on which the improvement of the lives of people living with HIV depends.
The three main areas are:
Positive health
Positive dignity
Positive prevention

3. Overview Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (PHDP) is
An approach to ‘HIV treatment and prevention with people living with HIV’ based in human rights and led by people living with HIV.
Primary Goal: Support people living with HIV to achieve health and a stronger sense of well-being and self-worth.
Corollary Goal: Benefit public health (greater control of the HIV epidemic, reduced HIV incidence, less burden on the health system).
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4. How was it developed?
Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention: A Policy Framework
Finalised in March 2011
Result of a three-year collective, coordinated process
Led by and for Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)
Developed with networks of people living with HIV around the world
Included input from UNAIDS, donor agencies, public-sector stakeholders
Rolled-out to put into practice
Updated PHDP (2017)
Reflects new global evidence and updated country guidelines
Updated with people living with HIV networks and key stakeholders in Jamaica
Core modules adapted for health facility and auxiliary worker training

5. Why it was developed?
To provide a platform and tools for the greater involvement of people living with HIV in the personal and national response to HIV. To equip people living with HIV with essential information and skills for living emotionally- and physically-healthy lives To provide (clinical and non-clinical) support staff insights on how to best support people living with HIV.

6. Why it was developed? (cont’)
To move beyond ‘positive prevention’ and ‘prevention with positives.’
To holistically:
Affirm the right to health and well-being, including the importance of addressing treatment and prevention simultaneously.
Respond to legal, policy, and other structural barriers to health and dignity.
Nurture and enhance leadership of people living with HIV across all areas and levels of programming and policy.
Facilitator Notes: Elaborate, as needed, that “Positive Prevention” or “Prevention with Positives:”
* Expanded the involvement of people living with HIV involvement in the HIV response
* Yet, sometimes “positive prevention” or “prevention with positives” has included limited—or counterproductive—assumptions, such as:
- the primary reason to engage people living with HIV is to prevent transmission.
- people living with HIV have a primary responsibility for preventing HIV transmission, as opposed to it being a shared responsibility among all people (of unknown, negative, and positive HIV statuses), and of governments and others to make shared responsibility a reality.
Explain that “Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention” thus seeks to expand beyond prevention, reaffirming evidence that an effective HIV response for people living with HIV, their communities, and public health must:
* Affirm the right to health and well-being
* Respond to legal, policy, and other structural barriers
* Nurture and enhance leadership of people living with HIV
Legal and policy barriers, for instance, include criminalisation of HIV transmission or same-sex relations, which violate human rights and increase barriers to prevention, treatment, and care. Structural barriers include gender inequality, poverty, racism, and trans/homophobia.

7. Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (PHPD)
Global framework includes
Core values
Guiding principles of involvement
Programming and policy objectives
Nine key areas to strengthen programming
. . . plus examples of promising practices
Facilitator Notes: The Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention framework document includes the following elements to help make PHDP approaches a reality.
These include an explicit set of:
Core values
Guiding principles of involvement
Programming and policy objectives
Areas to strengthen programming
Many examples of promising practices

8. Global Framework – 1. Core Values
Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention seeks to:
Improve and maintain the health and well-being of people living with HIV.
Promote holistic health and wellness.
Address psychosocial, economic, educational, and socio-cultural vulnerabilities, as well as gender and sexuality.
Respect and be tailored to specific contexts and the diversity of people living with HIV.
Help to ensure a supportive and protective legal and policy environment.
Facilitator Notes: In using the PHDP framework for programmes and policy development, the framework seeks to ensure that efforts:
Improve, maintain, and promote the holistic health and well-being of people living with HIV.
Address vulnerabilities.
Respect and be tailored to specific contexts and groups.
Ensure a supportive and protective legal and policy environment.

9. Global Framework – 2. Principles of Involvement
Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention affirms that we need a collective response, with the full engagement of people living with HIV: “It is not who you are but what you do.” We are all at risk. “Having HIV has not made us less than human beings.” A human rights approach is the foundation of Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention. “All of Jamaica is responsible for the prevention of HIV.” It is a shared responsibility. “We deserve a family too.” Sexual and reproductive health and rights must be recognised and exercised by everyone, regardless of HIV status.
Facilitator Notes: The PHDP framework also seeks to ensure that the following principles guide programme and policy efforts at all levels.

10. Global Framework – 3. Programming and Policy Objectives
Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention aims to:
Expand policy and programming approaches that support people living with HIV to make informed choices and live free of stigma, discrimination, and gender-based violence.
Scale-up and expand community-owned HIV counselling, testing, care, support, treatment, and prevention programmes that include sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Expand literacy programmes related to care, treatment, and human rights.
Promote shared responsibility for HIV prevention.
Invest in the social capital of organisations/networks of people living with HIV and key populations.

11. Global Framework – 9 Key Programming Components
Nine key components are needed to put Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention into practice:
Treatment literacy
Empowerment
Gender equality
Human rights
Sexual and reproductive rights
Health promotion and access
Preventing new infections
Social and economic support
Meaningful involvement of people living with HIV in measuring impact

12. Barriers and Challenges: Stigma and Criminalisation
Do you still hear (and see) these messages?
“HIV-positive people should not have sex.”
“HIV-positive people should use condoms or go to prison.”
“HIV-positive women should not have children.”
Facilitator Notes: First ask, “What is happening in this image?” Then ask, “Do you still see or hear these messages? Where/from whom?”
You can use these prompts to help start the discussion:
Support groups?
Schools?
Workplaces?
Church?
Community?

13. What Works Do you see (and hear) messages like this?
What’s helped to move towards positive health, dignity, and prevention?
What’s still needed?
Facilitator Notes: First ask participants to focus on the image, and answer, “What’s happening in this image/ message?”
Then ask, “Do you see and hear messages like this?”
You can use these prompts to help start the discussion:
Support groups?
Schools?
Workplaces?
Health clinics?
Churches?
Community groups?
Then ask:
what’s worked to help support images/programming like this? That is, what are some examples that exists that are promising?
Where are there gaps? What’s still needed?
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14. Thank You
This presentation was collaboratively developed by leaders of the people living with HIV community (Pilot Cohort of the GIPA Capacity Building Project, National HIV/STI Programme, and the Jamaican Network of Seroposities or JNPlus), with support from the Health Policy Project (HPP)/Jamaica. Updates were provided by Health Policy Plus (HPP’s follow-on project), in close collaboration with people living with HIV and other key stakeholders in Jamaica.