Understanding HIV-1 Incidence in Eastern and Southern Africa

This guidance note aims to help policy-makers, HIV programmers, researchers and M&E practitioners understand what is known about HIV incidence, how they can best interpret and use HIV incidence data and the decisions they can make to promote the appropriate use of HIV incidence data in the improvement of HIV prevention responses.

As such, this guidance note provides information on:

• the importance of HIV incidence estimations in monitoring the HIV epidemic and HIV prevention responses;
• the different methods used for measuring and estimating HIV incidence, determining trends in incidence and estimating HIV incidence from various data sources;
• the strengths and limitations of different methods for measuring and estimating HIV incidence, as well as how to interpret incidence data;
• ways to expand the use of incidence data as part of the improvement of HIV responses and HIV prevention programmes.

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