Renewing our Commitment to Putting the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) into Practice

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Global Network for and by People Living with HIV (GNP+) held a workshop December 6-9 2010 in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss how people living with HIV are involved in delivering HIV programmes in Africa. The workshop was based on the recently developed greater involvement of people living with HIV (GIPA) good practice guide. Although the principle of GIPA is not new, this document was prepared to emphasise the importance of revisiting and applying it in HIV programmes so that people living with HIV can play an effective role in how HIV work is shaped and run in their countries.



The contents contain the following:

• Introduction
• Dakar workshop: an example of putting the GIPA principle into practice 
• Setting the scene
• Opening ceremony 
• A timeline of GIPA 
• Conceptualising a tree of involvement 
• GIPA in work with women and marginalised communities in generalised and concentrated epidemics
• Accountability and representation
• Promoting the leadership of people living with HIV
• Community systems strengthening, involvement in country coordinating mechanisms and national AIDS councils
• Tools and strategies
• Case studies: organisations working with men who have sex with men and ABOYA [organisation of women living with HIV/AIDS, Senegal]
• How do we involve people living with HIV in the programme cycle? 
• Tools to help put GIPA into practice 
• Monitoring and evaluating our efforts 
• Taking our work forward
• Reflections on the role play 
• Reflections on the poster exhibition 
• Barriers, obstacles and solutions to implementing the GIPA principle 
• Action planning 
• Moving forward 
• Appendices