Ending HIV Transmission in Scotland by 2030: HIV Transmission Elimination Delivery Plan 2023-26

Glossary

BASHH - British Association for Sexual Health and HIV

BBV – Blood borne virus – HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B

BHIVA - British HIV Association

ePrEP - an online PrEP service, designed to give some people the option of managing their PrEP at home.

GBMSM - Gay, Bisexual and other Men who have Sex with Men

GCU – Glasgow Caledonian University

Genotypic testing - Genotypic testing examines the genetic structure (genotype) of a patient's HIV.

HiTEOG - HIV Transmission Elimination Oversight Group

HIVTE - HIV Transmission Elimination

HIV-TEDI - HIV Transmission Elimination Delivery plan Implementation Short-Life Working Group

IEP - Injecting Equipment Provision

Indicator Condition - HIV indicator conditions are those associated with a higher rate of HIV infection (an undiagnosed prevalence of more than 1/1000) because they share transmission routes (e.g. viral hepatitis) or because they arise as a result of early or late immunodeficiency (e.g. bacterial pneumonia, Kaposi's sarcoma).

Indicator Condition Testing - This is an approach where healthcare professionals routinely offer an HIV test to all individuals presenting with an indicator condition because the condition is associated with undiagnosed HIV infection.

LIMS - Laboratory Information Management System

MAT - Medication Assisted Treatment

MAT Standards - MAT standards are evidence-based standards that aim to enable the consistent delivery of safe, accessible, high-quality drug treatment across Scotland.

NES - NHS Education for Scotland

OAT - Opioid Agonist Therapy - an effective treatment for addiction to opioid drugs. The

therapy involves taking the opioid agonists methadone (Methadose) or buprenorphine (Suboxone). These medications work to prevent withdrawal and reduce cravings for opioid drugs.

OPSS - Online Postal Self-Sampling – Testing where the individual receives a testing kit at home to take samples to send off to the laboratory for their results.

Opt-out ED testing – an intervention where everyone in an emergency department who gives a blood sample is routinely tested for BBVs unless they opt out. It seeks to address inequalities in testing among people who may not identify themselves as being at risk of a BBV and do not seek testing, and / or may not be offered testing in health care services. It also offers an opportunity to re-engage people previously diagnosed with BBVs but who are not currently in care.

PEP – Post-Exposure Prophylaxis

PHS – Public Health Scotland

Phylogenetic analysis - Phylogenetic analysis can be used to reconstruct the ancestry of the virus to better understand the origin and distribution of subtypes.

PrEP – Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

SAE – Significant Adverse Event

SHBBV - Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses

SHPN - Scottish Health Protection Network

SMVN - Scottish Microbiology and Virology Network

SRH – Sexual and Reproductive Health

TasP - Treatment as Prevention

THT – Terrence Higgins Trust

TOM - Target Operating Model

TtF - Trying to Find

TURAS - Digital education platform developed by NHS Education for Scotland to support health and care professionals working in the public sector.

U=U - Undetectable = Untransmittable. U=U means that people with HIV who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load - the amount of HIV in the blood - by taking antiretroviral therapy daily as prescribed cannot sexually transmit the virus to others.

UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

WHO – World Health Organization