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Using Research to Inform Support Services for People living with HIV - A Webinar

  • Added: May 2012
  • Speaker: Michael Wilson, Winston Husbands, Lydia Makoroka
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  • Related Program: KTE

This webinar resulted from a project to mobilize and disseminate research evidence that may inform community-based support services for people living with HIV.  The project was collaboratively developed and implemented by a team from community-based organizations and universities in Ontario, assisted by a national advisory committee. 

 

The team already know that, though AIDS service organizations provide essential support to people living with HIV (PLHIVs), decision-makers have limited access to research that may inform program development.  Therefore the objectives of the project were to:

 

(a)   Identify all systematic reviews related to counselling, case management and health promotion for PLHIVs published since 1996 (i.e., since the availability of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy [HAART]),

(b)   Assess the quality and local applicability of the interventions evaluated in those systematic reviews,

(c)    Develop user-friendly summaries of the systematic reviews and disseminate them among program and policy decision-makers.

 

In this webinar (45 minutes long), Michael Wilson (one of the co-principal investigators of the project):

 

(a)   discusses the project background, methods and findings,

(b)   discusses the benefits of systematic reviews for program and policy development,

(c)    presents tips for locating systematic reviews, and introduces online resources where research syntheses are available

provides an introduction and orientation to the user-friendly summaries of the systematic reviews

Michael Wilson, Winston Husbands, Lydia Makoroka

Michael Wilson is from the Ontario Health Treatment Network (OHTN), McMaster Forum & McMaster University

Winston Husbands is from the AIDS Comittee of Toronto (ACT) and the University of Toronto

Lydia Makoroka is from the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) and McMaster University

 

Technical support for the webinar was provided by The SRC.