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Research and development for the National African HIV Prevention programme
Duration: April 2009 - March 2010
We have been commissioned by the African HIV Policy Network to provide research and development (R&D) services to NAHIP, the National African HIV Prevention programme for African people in England. The NAHIP programme includes 19 community based organisations (listed below) and is co-ordinated by AHPN. The programme is funded by the Department of Health.
The overall aims of our NAHIP R&D programme is to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of HIV health promotion intended to contribute to a reduction in HIV incidence through sex between African people in England. We hope that as a result of our R&D programme, those responsible for the planning and delivery of interventions will have a greater knowledge of health promotion need, programme configuration and intervention performance.
In this first year of our formal participation in NAHIP our R&D programme is divided into just two areas of work: strategy & sector development and monitoring & evaluation.
NAHIP strategy & sector development
This area of work predominantly concerns what HIV health promotion should be trying to achieve with African people in England. It includes a dedicated website for the collaborative planning framework called The Knowledge, The Will and The Power (KWP); the provision of additional briefing papers to increase engagement with the KWP framework, its uses or its future development; two whole-day knowledge transfer and planning seminars; and R&D consultancy with NAHIP staff and specific partners within NAHIP.
NAHIP monitoring & evaluation
We must be confident that the interventions which we include in our programmes are effective and efficient at bringing about their intended aims. Individual interventions require specific evaluations to judge their performance, and to inform future programme planning. We intend to extend a growing body of evaluation data by assessing the coverage of NAHIP mass media interventions among Africans in England; and monitoring and access evaluation of NAHIP face-to-face, outreach, detached work and groupwork interventions.
Key contact:
NAHIP partners
African Institute for Social Development
Black Gay Men's Advisory Group
Black Health Agency (inc. Leeds Skyline Service)
Centre for African Families Positive Health
Community of Congolese Refugees in Great Britain (CORECOG)
Congolese Youth Association
The Crescent (Hertfordshire)
Embrace UK Community Support Centre
Health Action Charity Organisation (HACO)
MDC Training & Consultancy
National Institute for African Studies (NIAS)
NAZ Project London
Organisation of HIV Positive African Men (OPAM)
Pan-Afrique Centre
Positively Women
Terrence Higgins Trust
Uganda AIDS Action Fund
West African Network Initiative
Youth Projects International
