An International Research
Consortium to Maximise
Benefits & Equity of HIV
Treatment & Care Systems

Evidence for Action has announced funding for four new small research projects looking into various aspects of HIV treatment and care, involving collaboration between the partners. The projects to be funded are:

• Identifying and minimising the gap between knowledge, policy and practice in relation to use of Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in adult and paediatric HIV care
• Shifts in home-based care for PLHA in the era of ART
• The role of Global Health Initiatives in the implementation of ARV roll-out in Copperbelt province in Zambia – twinning of UK and Zambian researcher
  
• Assessment of the frequency, distribution and predictors of health-care service use of patients initiating ART in Goa, India and Uganda

These projects will take between 1-18 months, and are designed to provide the basis for further, larger scale research.

If you would like more information on these projects, or would like to be kept informed of the outcomes, please email info@evidence4action.org