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The Global Evaluation of Microbicide Sensitivity (GEMS) project has developed a toolkit focused on HIV drug resistance within PrEP rollout programs. These toolkit materials are designed to help policymakers, health care workers, and laboratory personnel develop and implement drug resistance monitoring programs. New materials will be added, so be sure to visit the GEMS website frequently.
- PrEP and Drug Resistance Fact Sheet for Policy Makers
- Intended Audience: Policy Makers
- What’s Inside? Brief overview of the risk of drug resistance while using PrEP and implications for overall PrEP rollout
- PrEP and Drug Resistance Fact Sheet for Health Care Workers
- Intended Audience: Health Care Workers
- What’s Inside? Brief overview of the risk of drug resistance while using PrEP, including key counseling messages
- Acute Seroconversion Assessment Checklist
- Intended Audience: Health Care Workers
- What’s Inside? Clinical assessment of acute HIV seroconversion symptoms in PrEP clients to limit drug resistance
- DBS Job Aid for Resistance Testing
- Intended Audience: Health Care Workers
- What’s inside? Visual explanation of collection and shipment of dried blood spot samples
- PrEP and Drug Resistance Training Slides
- Intended Audience: Health Care Workers
- What’s Inside? Training Materials for those managing a drug resistance monitoring project, collecting blood samples, or couseling clients on drug resistance test results
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Drug Resistance Programs
- Intended Audience: Policy Makers
- What’s Inside? M&E indicators for ongoing, long-term assessment of drug resistance risk
For more information and to review additional tools, SOPs, and a training video on dried blood spot preparation, visit the GEMS website.