Research

Evidence base

Alliance programming draws on a strong evidence-base of existing and emerging HIV research and contributes to this field through research conducted by the Alliance and its partners.

Recent research

Research the Alliance has contributed to is regularly published in academic journals. Click the links below to read our most recent pieces of research:

• Understanding the linkages between informal and formal care for people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
  
• Expanding the role of community mobilization to accelerate progress towards ending vertical transmission of HIV in Uganda: the Networks model
  
• Mobilising community collectivisation among female sex workers to promote STI service utilisation from the government healthcare system in Andhra Pradesh, India
  
• Community advocacy groups as a means to address the social environment of female sex workers: a case study in Andhra Pradesh, India
  
• Living as an adolescent with HIV in Zambia - lived experiences, sexual health and reproductive needs
  
• Only connect - the role of PLHIV group networks in increasing the effectiveness of Ugandan HIV services
  
• Costing human rights and community support interventions as a part of universal access to HIV treatment and care in a southern African setting
  

Evidence for Action

The Alliance played a key role in the DFID funded research programme consortium, Evidence for Action, whose five years of work finished in 2011. Click here to read the final report, detailing the key messages that came out over the five years of research in Africa and Asia.

As part of Evidence for Action and with SIDA funding through the Alliance’s Africa Regional Programme, the Alliance has led three main research projects.  Key initiatives include exploring home-based care packages in the provision of antiretroviral therapy, examining the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents living with HIV, and the role of networks of people living with HIV.  This research has been done in partnership with Alliance linking organisations in Zambia and Uganda, as well as SAT Zambia, NZP+ and TASO.

The Alliance continues to identify and take advantage of opportunities to partner with research institutions and other organisations to take forward research relevant to HIV and related health sectors. In particular, the Alliance is currently a leader in spearheading research to strengthen cross-sector understanding of Value for Money.