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Overview
Men lag behind women regarding use of HIV services and represent the majority of individuals living with uncontrolled HIV, advanced HIV, and who experience HIV-related mortality. Men (15+) globally are less likely than women (15+) to know their HIV status (83% for men vs 91% for women), be on antiretroviral treatment (ART) (72% for men vs 83% for women) and reach viral suppression (67% for men vs 78% for women).
There is a growing evidence base on what strategies improve men’s use of HIV services. In 2023, WHO published Men and HIV: evidence-based approaches and interventions. A framework for person-centred health services, which promoted core evidence-based strategies to meet men’s unique needs for HIV and related services.
This Implementation brief is aligned to the Men and HIV Frameworkand highlights strategies to reach men, practical examples and lessons learned from real-world implementation, and how health policies have incorporated men’s health.
The brief has three specific objectives:
1. Provide overarching considerations on how to optimize strategies to engage men across the HIV cascade;
2. Synthesize specific PCC strategies and implementation insights; and
3. Describe evidence-based approaches for informed decision making around scaling men’s HIV services.
Objectives 2 and 3 provide tangible, practical case examples of evidence in practice from within sub-Saharan Africa.