Botswana's Mass Antiretroviral Therapy Program

This policy brief from the World Health Organization (WHO) describes the available viral load testing approaches for monitoring how well antiretroviral therapy is working for people living with HIV. Antiretroviral therapy has transformed the lives of people living with HIV, altering the course of a once-fatal disease into a manageable chronic condition that can be treated. Effective treatment that achieves HIV viral suppression improves individual health, prevents sexual transmission to partners, and reduces the risk…

This Lancet Series explores major ongoing humanitarian crises in a number of countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, and others. Consisting of four papers and one article, the series assesses humanitarian interventions and finds wide variation in the quality of evidence and evidence gathering. Compiling lessons learned from recent failures, the Series provides suggestions for successful future interventions. It aims to make the protection of humanitarian workers a central focus, and to outline improvements…

This Lancet Commission report summarizes lived experiences of stigma and discrimination related to mental health conditions, related impacts on engagement with community, barriers to help-seeking, forms of social inclusion, and care provision. The report highlights that interventions focused on in-person, virtual, or indirect social contact have been most effective in reducing stigmatization worldwide, especially when appropriately adapted to specific cultures and contexts. Such interventions are even more effective when developed with people with lived experience of mental…