Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network

Researching National and Sub-National Effects of Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives at the Country Level

• USA
• Peru
• Ireland
• UK
• Belgium
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Ukraine
• Georgia
• Kyrgyzstan
• China
• Vietnam
• Benin
• Ethiopia
• Uganda
• Tanzania
• South Africa
• Angola
• Zambia
• Mozambique
• Malawi

Global funding for HIV/AIDS has increased dramatically during the past five years. Three global HIV/AIDS initiatives are together contributing most of the direct external funding to scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care:The World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Programme including the Multi-country AIDS Programme (MAP); The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) and The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

The Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network (GHIN) is a network of researchers in 21 countries that explores the effects of these Global Health Initiatives on existing health systems. The Network is focusing on collecting evidence of these effects from regions, facilities and services, and communities, in order to inform policy development at national and international level.

GHIN will provide added value to individual country studies by:

• Promoting comparability through common research protocols and tools
• Sharing expertise across country study teams and building research capacity
• Generating multi-country comparisons and context-specific policy lessons
• Coordinating dissemination of findings and recommendations and streamlining communication with global stakeholders

The Network facilitates comparable work on a number of key research themes and the synthesis of findings around them: Sub-national scale-up; Health systems capacity; Equitable access.

Further information can be obtained from Aisling Walsh aislingwalsh@rcsi.ie or from Neil Spicer, neil.spicer@lshtm.ac.uk or from any of the individual country researchers.