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HIV tools available online
Reposted courtesy of INTAIDS - ([email protected])
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The HIVTools Research Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of our new HIVToolsweb-site: www.hivtools.lshtm.ac.uk/
The HIVTools web-site is our on-line presence, providing up-to-date information on the group's activities, as well as the latest downloads for:
* HIVTools/UNAIDS costing guidelines;
* HIVTools mathematical models for estimating the impact of different HIV prevention interventions;
* Publications and reports;
* Presentations;
* Links to funders, collaborators and relevant HIV resource lists.
The HIVTools Research Group is a multidisciplinary academic research group conducting HIV/AIDS-related research in resource-poor settings. Based in the Health Policy Unit at LSHTM, the group carries out research and training in epidemiological modelling and economic analysis. Group members are specialists in economics, mathematics, epidemiology, and behavioural science.
Policy and programming applications of the research include:
* National planning and financing, resource allocation and replication scaling up
* Intervention monitoring and evaluation
* Priority-setting
* Standardisation of methodologies
* Tools for decision-making
As part of their research, the HIVTools Research Group has been working on estimating the impact and cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention activities in different settings in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. They have developed a cost-effectiveness tool-kit - "HIVTools" - targeted at researchers, policymakers and programme managers wishing to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis of HIV prevention interventions.
The "HIVTools" toolkit covers an expanding range of interventions including condom promotion, strengthening of STI treatment, blood safety, needle exchange and the use of microbicides, as well as multifaceted interventions focusing on specific vulnerable groups (adolescents,injecting drug users, sex workers and their clients).
The toolkit has been used to estimate the impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions in Bangladesh, Belarus, Cameroon, South Africa, Ukraine and Zambia.
The HIVTools Research Group collaborates with three DFID knowledge programmes based at LSHTM: Health Economics and Financing, AIDS and Tuberculosis Programmes and the International Perinatal Care Programme at the Institute of Child Health. The group also works collaboratively with partners in each of the project countries.
Funders of the HIVTools Research Group include: UNAIDS, DFID, the British Council, PATH, IFH, the Rockefeller Foundation, WHO and the Ford Foundation.
Contact us at [email protected] or postal address:
HIVTools Research Group
Health Policy Unit
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
UK
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