HIV Policy Lab

About

The HIV Policy Lab (HIVPL) is a research and accountability platform that rigorously tracks and measures the HIV-related law and policy environment in countries around the world on issues ranging from policies on clinical care and HIV prevention to criminal and consent laws to policies on health system financing and beyond. The HIVPL consists of a dataset, index, and reference library and longitudinally captures and visualizes 33 different laws and policies (with a total of 52 indicators) in each of the 194 countries starting from 2017, driving accountability and action among national governments for adopting the evidence-based policies needed to end the AIDS pandemic. It is an open, growing global public resource that gathers data from legal documents, government reporting, and independent research developed in collaboration with the UN, civil society, and academic partners.

Our Work

The HIV Policy Lab seeks to document and improve the policy environment by partnering with governments, public health officials, financing agencies, and civil society groups to support advocacy and accountability across countries for science-based policy change. The Policy Lab also provides researchers with cross-national data on policies so we can learn more about the impacts and drivers of policy choices. HIV-related laws and policies can have life-and-death consequences. We need to measure, evaluate, and change them to meet the evolving science on the path toward ending the global AIDS pandemic.

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