Acronyms

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ABC Abstain, Be faithful, and use Condoms

ADA Americans with Disabilities Act (United States)

AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

ARV Antiretroviral medicines/drugs

CAFTA-DR Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement

CBO Community-based organization

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)

CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

CIOMS Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences

CIPIH Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health

COHRE Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions

CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child

CUP Condom use program

DDA Disability Discrimination Act (United Kingdom)

FC Female circumcision (also called female genital mutilation/ cutting)

FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration

FHI Family Health International

FTA Free trade agreement

FUNASA Fundação Nacional de Saúde (National Health Foundation of Brazil)

FY Fiscal year

HCWMP Health Care Waste Management Plan

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

IAPSO Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (UNDP)

IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

ICB International competitive bidding

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

IDA International Development Association

ID Identity document

IDU Injection/injecting drug use/user

IEDCR Institute of Epidemiology and Disease Control

IEC Institutional Ethics Committee

ILO International Labour Organization

INCB International Narcotics Control Board

IOM International Organization for Migration

IPU Inter-Parliamentary Union

IRBs Institutional Review Boards

LAAM Levo alpha acetyl methadol

LDCs Least-developed countries (UN classification)

LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender

MAP Multi-Country AIDS Program

MTCT Mother to child transmission (of HIV)

MOH Ministry of health

MOHP Ministry of health and population

MSM Men who have sex with men

MMWR RR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Recommendations and Reports

NACOP National AIDS Coordination Program

NEP Needle exchange program

NGO Nongovernment organization

NPO Nonprofit organization

OACHA Ontario Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS

OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

OP/BP Operational policy/best practice

OSI Open Society Institute

PEP Postexposure prophylaxis

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