Designing HIV/AIDS Intervention Studies: An Operations Research Handbook

 

The Handbook is designed to help HIV/AIDS researchers develop and write a detailed operations research proposal. An appropriate use of the Handbook is as a resource in workshops or courses on research design and proposal development. Thus, the organization of the Handbook follows that of a research proposal, starting with identifying, defining, and justifying a research problem, and ending with how to prepare a budget. The chapters in between cover a variety of topics such as research objectives, study design, data tabulation, data analysis, and dissemination and utilization of research findings.   The Handbook assumes that the reader has some familiarity with the terms and concepts of research design and statistics as well as some experience with research studies, particularly those that address issues concerning HIV/AIDS. Most of the examples in the Handbook were drawn from actual HIV/AIDS operations research studies conducted in Asia, Africa, and Latin America by the Horizons Program.   Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Horizons is a global HIV/AIDS operations research program implemented by the Population Council in collaboration with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Tulane University, Family Health International (FHI), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU).