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XVIII International AIDS Conference PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Evidence for Action researchers will be presenting their work at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna,  19th-23rd July. Details of when and where these presentations will take place can be found in our AIDS 2010 flyer (pdf, 165kb).
 
Countdown to 2015: Challenging Orthodoxies Related to SRH & HIV PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 11 June 2010

Evidence for Action co-organised a conference bringing together new research from 4 DFID-funded Research Programme Consortia (RPCs) on HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The conference themes were:

  • Building health systems for the future of HIV and SRH
  • Contextualising and implementing SRH rights
  • Bridging treatment and prevention in HIV
  • Addressing social, structural and economic drivers of HIV and SRH
  • Getting research into policy and practice and the use of evidence by policymakers
Speakers included Julia Kim of UNDP, Ann Phoya of the Ministry of Health in Malawi, and Reuben Granich of the World Health Organisation, together with RPC researchers from Africa, Asia and Europe. Full conference brochure, pdf (1,335kb).
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Getting research into policy in Zambia PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 07 June 2010

The Case of Cotrimoxazole Preventive Therapy

A case study from research in Zambia is now available online. The research looked into how the evidence on the effectiveness of cotrimoxazole preventive therapy influenced policy in Zambia.

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Beyond the rhetoric - integration of HIV services with health care and systems PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 04 June 2010

Over the past two years a renewed emphasis on principles of primary health care (PHC) has led to a call for the greater integration of horizontal disease specific programmes and vertical health services with the ultimate aim to strengthen health systems. This has been at least partly the result of an emerging body of evidence which has identified areas where greater coordination between, or integration of, disease specific programmes could lead to more efficient use of resources and avoid duplication.

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Getting research out of practice in HIV PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 26 May 2010

The Lancet has recently published an article by Evidence for Action researchers calling for more effort to get research out of practice (GROP). Read the full article here .

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