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HIV/AIDS/STI/TB

HIV and AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Tuberculosis continue to affect many people and are a major health concern for many countries.

HERA has undertaken global and national evaluations of HIV/AIDS programmes, developed costing tools for assessing blood transfusion services, has analysed the costing of a number of blood transfusion and HIV/AIDS national programmes, and advised on financing strategies for HIV/AIDS.

Amongst its partners, HERA has several experts with international reputation in the field of HIV/AIDS. They are full-time involved in HIV/AIDS work, also through other institutions and organisations.

Examples of expertise provided in the field of HIV/AIDS/STI/TB include:

Development of costing tools and cost-effectiveness analysis for blood transfusion services

HERA developed the guidelines and tools for the EC (Aids Task Force, 1990-92), which were subsequently presented to and adopted by WHO (1992) and evaluated many national blood transfusion services world-wide, including in Haiti, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Guinea Conakry, etc.

Costing studies of HIV/AIDS

HERA did a cost analysis of secondary and tertiary AIDS prevention in Belgium (1991) and proposed innovative financing mechanisms for secondary and tertiary AIDS prevention (1994);
Cost-analysis of cross-sectoral HIV/AIDS spending in Uganda, on behalf of the EC (2006);

Institutional analysis and operational planning

HERA did the institutional analysis of the FARES (TB prevention), evaluated cost-effectiveness of TB prevention and screening (1994);
HERA also supported developing the operational plan for Aids prevention for the French Community (Belgium, 1994);

Global and regional HIV/AIDS evaluations

HERA evaluated the EC HIV/AIDS programme in developing countries (1987-1996; 350 projects; 82 countries; budget of USD 200M) and performed an institutional analysis of the EC Aids Task Force (1996);
HERA also evaluated the HIV/AIDS training course 'Planning for the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS in developing countries', on behalf of the EC in 1998.
Recently, HERA did the mid-term review of the SADC/EU regional support project on HIV and AIDS (2005);
Caribbean Region: Evaluation of the HIV/AIDS Program of PANCAP and elaboration of the Strategic Framework for 2008-2011 (2007)
Caribbean Region: External evaluation PANCAP Global Fund grant MAC-304-G01-H "Scaling up the Regional Response to HIV/AIDS through the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS" (2010);
Caribbean region: Total Market Analysis (Baseline and Endline) of Sexual Commodities (Condoms, sexual lubricants and other contraceptive products) in Suriname and Jamaica: free/generic, socially marketed and commercial brands (2011);

National and local HIV/AIDS and STI programme

HERA assisted the development of HIV/AIDS strategic plans or evaluated the implementation in more than 20 countries worldwide, in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe;
DRC: Technical review of the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy programme (2004).
Malawi: bi-annual multi-disciplinary assessment of progress of implementation of the NAC strategic HIV/AIDS plan, on behalf of the WB and development agencies (2005-2007);
Mozambique: Evaluation of the project "Integrated network combating HIV/aids In Moatize and Tete"(2006);
Myanmar: Formulation of a Humanitarian Fund to finance HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB programmes (2006);
Swaziland: Final Evaluation of the EC HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme (2006);
DRC: Evaluation of the Contribution of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease towards the HIV/AIDS Program (2008);
Tanzania & Zanzibar: Evaluation of the BTC support to the program of Sexual Transmitted Diseases (2008);
Mauritius: Capacity Building of Key Players to improve efficiency of communication strategies on HIV and AIDS in Mauritius - Strategic communication plan and operational communication plan (2009);
Niger: External Final Evaluation of the multisectorial HIV/AIDS/STI Project (2009);
Haiti: GFATM Grant Development for TB (2010);
Niger: Assessment of the programmatic aspects of the audit of the Global Fund grants to Ivory Coast (2010)
Peru: Assessment of the programmatic aspects of the audit of the Global Fund grants to Ivory Coast (2011)
Mozambique: Assessment of the programmatic aspects of the audit of the Global Fund grants to Ivory Coast (2011)

National blood transfusion services

HERA supported the development of, undertook the institutional and costing analysis and evaluated the cost-effectiveness of blood transfusion services in 8 countries, including in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.

Monitoring change

HERA monitors on bi-annual basis the implementation of the national HIV/AIDS strategic plan in Malawi, on behalf of the WB (2005-2007) [Links to database]

Research

HIV/AIDS socio-behavioural study amongst fishermen and boat people in the member states of the Commission of the Indian Ocean (2007-2008) [Links to database]