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SUMMARY:17. Implementation Science in HIV Programming
DESCRIPTION: \nDescription\nThere is a substantial gap between innovative approaches in HIV prevention and treatment and their delivery to communities most affected with HIV.  Implementation science addresses the level to which health interventions can fit within real-world public health and clinical service systems. Other aims of the implementation science are to investigate and address major bottlenecks (e.g. social\, behavioral\, economic\, management) that impede effective implementation\, test new approaches to improve health programming\, as well as determine a causal relationship between the intervention and its impact. Implementation science and effective implementation require interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers\, implementers\, policymakers\, civil society\, and others.Implementation science has similarities with monitoring and evaluation programmes as both seek to understand what is working well and what is not working well. However\, implementation science seeks to understand the etiology of gaps between expected results and observed outcomes.  Unlike operations research\, which may identify and address barriers related to performance of specific projects\, implementation science creates generalizable knowledge that can be applied across settings and contexts. \n\n\n\n \nObjectives\n\n\n\nThe aim of this course is to provide participants with practical guidance on how to apply an implementation science framework to improve delivery and effectiveness of HIV prevention and treatment in their countries.The first part of the course is focused on issues such as setting prevention priorities  according to epidemic characteristics and differences in community contexts\, selection of the right strategies to engage key stakeholders\, selection of intervention mixand methods used in implementation science such as “gold standard” randomization approaches and quasi-experimental designs. The second part gives examples of implementation and evaluation of specific HIV programmes and interventions. \n\n\n\n \nTeaching Methods\n\n\n\nThe course consists of lectures\, presentation of case studies\, exercises and group work. A key part of the course is individual or group work which consists of participants’ work on proposals for implementation research in their countries. \n\n\n\nSome examples of the research questions for proposals are: \n\n\n\n\nWhat are the most effective ways to optimize ART delivery for PWID and what types of tailoring might be required?\nWhat is the feasibility of intensified HIV testing approaches and immediate ART for prevention in MSM?\nHow to encourage routine testing behaviours among FSW with negative test results?\nHow to improve retention and adherence to ART among PWID?\nHow can PrEP be scaled up to be an effective public health programme\, and what kinds of design strategies can be harnessed for quality evaluations?\nWhat are barriers to mother-to-child transmission prevention interventions and how can coverage of such prevention interventions be improved?\nCan routine HIV care be shifted from physicians to nurses?\n\n\n\n\n \nTarget Audience\n\n\n\nEpidemiologists\, public health professionals\, social scientists \n\n\n\n \nPartner institutions\n\n\n\n\n Global Health Sciences\, UCSF\nUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\n\n\n\n\n \nDuration:\n\n\n\nThe course takes place in five days. \n
URL:https://www.hivevaluation.org/training-course/implementation-science-in-hiv-programming/
CATEGORIES:Courses on HIV Programme Implementation and Evaluation
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