Evaluating programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and care in Developing Countries: handbook for program managers and decision makers

Practical manual on how to evaluate HIV programmes

Set of tools for a comprehensive and strategic approach to evaluation of programs related to the sexual transmission of HIV. It was developed for a target audience of program managers and decision makers of service delivery programs.

The handbook describes the methods needed to answer three simple but important questions:

Are we doing the right things?
Are we doing them right?
Are we doing them on a large enough scale to make a difference?

The handbook :

describes the current consensus on generic concepts, approaches, and frameworks
describes the operational approaches for evaluating the core program strategies necessary to effectively reduce the sexual transmission of HIV
reviews state-of-the-art methodologies and survey instruments for collecting behavioral data, and assesses their validity and reliability
recommends effective strategies for disseminating survey data to key audiences
considers evaluation issues related to assessing program impact, emphasizing the need to analyze behavioral and sero-epidemiological data in tandem
describes a newly developed tool for estimating the impact of different prevention strategies on HIV transmission
provides practical guidelines for cost and cost-effectiveness analysis

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