Building Capacity for Data-Driven Decision Making in African HIV Testing Programs: Field Perspectives on Data Use Workshops.
AIDS Educ Prev
; 28(6): 472-484, 2016 12.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27925491
ABSTRACT
Strategic, high quality HIV testing services (HTS) delivery is an essential step towards reaching the end of AIDS by 2030. We conducted HTS Data Use workshops in five African countries to increase data use for strategic program decision-making. Feedback was collected on the extent to which workshop skills and tools were applied in practice and to identify future capacity-building needs. We later conducted six semistructured phone interviews with workshop planning teams and sent a web-based survey to 92 past participants. The HTS Data Use workshops provided accessible tools that were readily learned by most respondents. While most respondents reported increased confidence in interpreting data and frequency of using such tools over time, planning team representatives indicated ongoing needs for more automated tools that can function across data systems. To achieve ambitious global HIV/AIDS targets, national decision makers may continue to seek tools and skill-building opportunities to monitor programs and identify opportunities to refine strategies.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções por HIV
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Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis
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Tomada de Decisões
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Fortalecimento Institucional
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
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Screening_studies
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Article