African Development of AIDS Prevention Trials

Friday, 14 February 2014
Toronto (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Lehana Thabane , St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
How to increase the number and quality of HIV prevention trials led by African researchers in 15 southern African countries. Capacity-building activities include offering researchers a series of short courses on epidemiology and randomized controlled trials and building training capacity for HIV/AIDS prevention trials at two African universities and a nongovernmental organization. Strategies for training parliamentarians to interpret research findings will be presented.