The Mission of the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS is to lead UNAIDS science strategy, with a focus on novel biomedical HIV prevention and emerging scientific information with relevance for policy and programming. It also develops guidance and tools for country implementation of proven novel HIV prevention tools and provides policy setting and strategic scientific advice to support country, regional, and global action on HIV. Furthermore, the office builds the capacity of UNAIDS staff across the programme for knowledge translation so that they provide scientifically-based strategic inputs to policy formulation and programming. It also strives to improve stakeholder understanding of epidemic dynamics and of key components of effective responses through timely knowledge translation.
HIV This Week
“HIV This Week” offers up-to-date insight into scientific developments in the field of HIV and related topics, as covered in specialized and general peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Keep up with the latest scientific and research developments visit the weekly blog, HIV This Week.
HIV clinical trial conduct
- Ethical considerations in biomedical HIV prevention trials (UNAIDS/WHO 2007)
- Good participatory practice — Guidelines for biomedical HIV prevention trials — 2011 (UNAIDS/AVAC 2011)
- Creating effective partnership for HIV prevention trails
- Make HIV Trials Work for Women and Adolescent Girls
- Executive summary and recommendations from the UNAIDS/GCWA/ICRW/Tibotex expert group consultation on ‘Making HIV trails work for women and adolescent girls’
Translating knowledge into action
- Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
- Male circumcision for HIV prevention in high HIV prevalence settings: What can mathematical modelling contribute to informed decision making? [PLoS Medicine 2009;6, September 8] (UNAIDS/WHO/SACEMA)
- UNAIDS 2010. How to conduct a legal and regulatory assessment for male circumcision service introduction and/or scale-up: A FACILITATION GUIDE 2010
- Recommendations from WHO/UNAIDS meeting on male circumcision and HIV prevention, Montreux, 28 March 2007
