The International AIDS Conference, held in Vienna, May 2010, included several presentations of Evidence for Action research. Some of these presentations can be found below.
Policy recommendations: Developing Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa (DART)
Thursday, 05 August 2010
Leading HIV investigators from the UK and Africa have demonstrated that many more people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa could be treated if laboratory tests were used in a targeted rather than routine way. In a short film (available above), trial participants, practitioners and investigators connected to the trial explain how maintaining and scaling-up access to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in low- and middle-income countries could be possible on current funding levels, even in the midst of a global economic crisis.
Monitoring and evaluation of HIV services for children is important
WHO have developed indicators for PMTCT and paediatric HIV programmes, however these indicators do not focus sufficiently on paediatric care of HIV-infected children after infancy
The key challenges to monitoring and evaluating paediatric HIV programmes are related to data quality; harmonisation of indicators between countries; and measuring the impact of treatment programmes
Any efforts to address these challenges need to take into account the pressure on health workers caused by the shortage of human resources.
Evidence for Action Annual Report 2009 - 2010
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
The Evidence for Action Annual Report has just been released. This report details the work carried out by the programme between July 2009 – June 2010. Download the full report here Annual Report 2009-2010 (pdf 832 Kb).
