Community-driven strategies for the use of antiretrovirals as prevention: United States Workshop Report

Launched in 2011, the multi-national Mapping Pathways project provides a community-led, research-driven, multi-layered synthesis about the use of antiretroviral-based prevention strategies. Project partners included RAND, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, AIDS United, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, Naz India, and Bairds CMC.

In the latter half of 2013, a subset of the Mapping Pathways team from RAND Europe and AIDS Foundation of Chicago conducted a series of three “knowledge exchange” scenario development workshops with a focus on the United States, held in San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; and Washington, DC. The aim of the workshops was to further share the findings of the report and to continue enhancing the community-driven, locally informed approach to the wider evidence base for ARV-based prevention. This report summarizes the outputs of those three workshops.

Mapping Pathways: Developing evidence-based, people-centred strategies for the use of antiretrovirals as prevention

Mapping Pathways is a multinational project to develop and nurture a research-driven, community-led global understanding of the emerging evidence base around the adoption of antiretroviral (ARV)-based prevention strategies to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The project is based on the premise that the current array of prevention options is not sufficient; new pathways to prevention, based on enhanced assessment and analysis of likely impact, are needed to address new infections adequately.

Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: What Gets Counted

This table from Px Wire January-March 2014 Volume 7, No.1 examines why the global systems for tracking voluntary medical male circumcision are lagging behind the actual progress being made.

AIDS Vaccine Science: What’s all the buzz about?

This is training exercise designed to bring HIV vaccine research information to life.

Good Participatory Practice: Guidelines for TB Drug Trials

The Good Participatory Practice (GPP) guidelines for TB Drug Trials is the product of a collaboration between AVAC and the Stakeholder and Community Engagement Workgroup of the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens. The guidelines offer trial funders, sponsors, and implementers systematic guidance on how to engage stakeholders throughout the research lifecycle. This first edition, published in 2012, contains five sections that provide context, foundational principles, and key practices for conducting TB drug trials.  

GPP Overview PowerPoint

The GPP Overview PowerPoint contains 35 slides that users can draw from when introducing the Good Participatory Practice guidelines.  The PowerPoint contains slides on the history and content of the guidelines, who the intended user is,  the role and importance of GPP in the field and strategies for effective use. The slide deck is broken into sections allowing slides can be rearranged or deleted to make a complete presentation.  

Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit for HIV Prevention Trials

The Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit for HIV Prevention Trials, developed by FHI360, is a guide to engaging a wide range of key stakeholders throughout the trial lifecycle. The toolkit is based on best practices and experience of clinical trial experts and community-based advocates. It includes short case studies, tools to guide and chart progress during a trial, stakeholder identification tools and other useful documents to document work tasks and define successful engagement in terms of the local context. 

African Women’s Civil Society Consultation on HIV Risk and Hormonal Contraceptives

More than 40 women representing HIV prevention advocates, reproductive health service providers, and women living with HIV from Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe met to review and discuss the existing data on hormonal contraceptive use and HIV risk.

AIDS Vaccine Science for Busy Advocates – Current AIDS Vaccine R&D Pipeline

One-pager reviewing what we’ve learned from previous efficacy trials, the product pipeline and where we are today and future directions toward finding a vaccine that works.

AIDS Vaccine Research: An overview

This series of infographics highlights the current state of the field. Each research area is expanded with key details about the current focus and advancements in the science along with critical issues that advocates should be tracking.