Creating a Culture of Evidence Use: Using an Innovative Knowledge Translation Platform to Inform HIV/AIDS Programming for Women and Girls

Default image, no image supplied by the user. Given that moving evidence from a study to policy, programs and practice can often take a decade or more, what is the best way to get evidence in the hands of those developing policies and programs to speed its use? Enhancing the use of evidence in policies and programs through an innovative web-based knowledge platform, What Works for Women: Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions (www.whatworksforwomen.org), resulted in major changes in National Strategic HIV Plans plus Concept Notes submitted to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria in fourteen countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Additionally, the What Works platform has been a key resource for key institutions in the HIV pandemic: PEPFAR, Global Fund, UNAIDS and civil society organizations. Lessons learned from the creation and dissemination of this knowledge platform may be useful for many other potential applications to increasing evidence-informed, gender responsive policies. 
 

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