Current Sponsored Research Projects

HORIZONS: Refining the response to HIV/AIDS through global operations research

Dates: July 1997 - current
Funding Source: USAID
Tulane's Role: Subcontractor to Population Council (the prime organization for the project) focusing on operations research and monitoring and evaluation activities
Countries: global
Principal Investigator: Lisanne Brown, PhD
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The mission of HORIZONS is to refine and strengthen the response to HIV/AIDS through global operations research. The project will carry-out action oriented research on promising strategies for mitigating the impact of the epidemic. It seeks to build individual, community and institutional research capabilities, disseminate research findings, and promote the utilization of these findings for program improvement.

HORIZONS will identify effective, gender sensitive and sustainable ways of:

• supporting people to make informed decisions about their sexual health
• reducing the vulnerability of those particularly at risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
• enhancing the quality of life of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS

The project will work in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America to identify better practices for reducing sexually transmitted infections, integrating HIV/AIDS services into other programs, reducing stigmatization and discrimination, providing care and support to people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, and increasing access to prevention and treatment services.  For more information please refer to the HORIZONS website.