MEASURE Evaluation at XIX International AIDS Conference
The biennial International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policymakers, people living with HIV and others committed to ending the epidemic. It is an opportunity for researchers from around the world to share the latest scientific advances in the field, learn from one another’s expertise, and develop strategies for advancing all facets of our collective efforts to treat and prevent HIV.
MEASURE Evaluation staff is contributing ideas and sharing its knowledge of HIV and evaluation at this year's conference.
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Webinar
Community Trace and Verify in Tanzania
Please join us for a Child Status Net webinar on the Community Trace and Verify tool and a participatory M&E approach, both applied in Tanzania. The discussion will be held at 10am EST on July 18th and will be led by Dawne Walker, Resident Technical Advisor/Chief of Party for MEASURE Evaluation Tanzania.
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Publications
Maternal Autonomy and Attitudes Towards Gender Norms: Associations with Childhood Immunization in Nigeria <http://goo.gl/pWTl9>
Globally 2.5 million children under-five die from vaccine preventable diseases, and in Nigeria only 23 % of children ages 12-23 months are fully immunized. The international community is promoting gender equality as a means to improve the health and well-being of women and their children. This paper looks at whether measures of gender equality, autonomy and individual attitudes towards gender norms, are associated with a child being fully immunized in Nigeria.
Ethnicity and HIV Risk in Guatemala <http://goo.gl/sOof4>
Mayans and other indigenous groups make up approximately half of the population in Guatemala, and previous research shows them to be highly disadvantaged on nearly every indicator of health and well-being (Gragnolati and Marini, 2003). Little is known, however, about the HIV risk profile of these groups, or how it may differ from that of the non-indigenous population. Evidence of these differences could inform resource allocation and be used to improve HIV prevention intervention strategies in the country.
Data on 16,205 women aged 15–49 and 6,822 men aged 15–59 who participated in the 2008–2009 Encuesta Nacional de Salud Materno Infantil (ENSMI) were used to describe differences between ethnic groups on a variety of demographic and HIV variables.
Using Health Facility Assessment Data to Address Programmatic Questions: Illustrative Examples for Program Managers <http://goo.gl/d8Di9>
This paper illustrates how health facility assessment data can be applied to answer questions currently facing many health program managers. The MEASURE Evaluation data demand and use conceptual framework is used as an organizing construct, which depicts data demand and use as a cycle that connects data demand, data collection/analysis, and information availability to data use.
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