Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections
The WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (STAG-HHS) comprises expert individuals from all WHO regions and key stakeholder groups, as appointed by the WHO Director-General.

Mission

The mission of the STAG-HHS is to contribute to the global response towards elimination of HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs as public health threats, by providing state-of-the art scientific, strategic, and technical advice to WHO.

Goal

The goal of the STAG-HHS is to provide the WHO Director-General with independent strategic and technical advice on WHO’s programme of work to scale up and maximize the impact of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for HIV, viral hepatitis and other STIs.

The STAG-HHS is convened annually to help WHO effectively guide the global response towards ending AIDS and the epidemics of viral hepatitis and STIs by 2030 in line with the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis, and STIs (GHSS) for the period 2022-2030. The STAG-HHS acts as an advisory body to WHO in this field.

The STAG-HHS meets predominantly to advise WHO on the implementation of the GHSS 2022–2030, noted with appreciation by the Seventy-Fifth World Health Assembly in May 2022 (resolution WHA75.20).

Terms of reference (pdf, 125 KB)

More details of the recommendations and outcomes of the discussions during the meetings can be accessed below under the section Meeting documents.

Call for experts

20 December 2024
Call for experts

Call for experts: WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections

Meeting documents

STAG meetings 2023-2024

STAG meeting: 20-22 November 2024

Meeting report (PDF, 885 kB)
Provisional agenda (PDF, 240 kB)

 

STAG meeting: 20-22 November 2023

Meeting report (pdf, 830 kB)
Annotated agenda (pdf, 240 kB)
Provisional list of participants (pdf, 185 kB)
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