THIS 2009 (Talks on HIV, Injecting Drug Use, and Sex) is a series of round table discussions (RTD) designed to consolidate, disseminate, and promote utilisation of findings from recent HIV researches and studies in the Philippines. Each RTD will focus on a particular most-at-risk population (MARP) and key programmes and services.
Programme implementers, researchers, and experts will be invited to participate in the RTDs. The first two will form the inner circle and they will be asked to provide abstracts of their studies or researches. The experts, on the other hand, will comprise the outer circle. They will then assess the information provided by the inner circle to identify gaps and items needing further clarifications or validations.
Complimenting the RTD series is a research database containing the RTD outputs and abstracts of researches and studies. The website hosting the database will eventually be linked to regional and global databases.
Through the project, researchers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders can access available information which can help improve policy and programmatic responses.
The project is spearheaded by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), in partnership with the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC), the Department of Health – National Epidemiology Center (NEC), and with support from the UN Joint Team on AIDS (UNJTA).
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