With scaling-up of HIV and other health services in low- and middle-income countries, an increasing amount of personally identifiable health information is being collected at health facilities and stored in data repositories at local, regional and national levels. Countries need to protect the confidentiality and security of identifiable and de-identified personal health information, and this can be accomplished in part through the existence and implementation of relevant privacy laws, policies and programmes. Based on these requirements a paper-based and electronic Assessment Tool have been developed to assess the existence and implementation of national country laws, policies and programmes on protecting the confidentiality and security of personal health information collected and held at the facility, data warehouse and national policy levels. The UNAIDS/PEPFAR Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Assessment Tool provides guidance for countries to facilitate, where required, the assessment of the security of the collection, storage and use of data in order to maintain privacy, confidentiality and security.
Foreword -- Summary -- background to the assessment tool -- Administreing the assessment tool -- Use of the assessment tool at the health facility level -- Use of the assessment tool at the data warehouse level -- Use of the assessment tool at the policy level -- Annex. Development of the interim guidelines and the assessment tool

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