Abstract

Background Compliance with ethical, regulatory, and scientific guidelines does not always guarantee consideration of external stakeholders’ concerns in research. In 2007, UNAIDS and AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention developed the Good Participatory Practice (GPP) Guidelines to ensure community and stakeholder engagement in biomedical HIV prevention research. In 2010-2011, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and AVAC conducted the first comprehensive evaluation of perceptions, practices and recommendations for improvement of participatory practice at eight IAVI-sponsored research centers (RCs) in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Highlights

  • Compliance with ethical, regulatory, and scientific guidelines does not always guarantee consideration of external stakeholders’ concerns in research

  • A total of 234 pre- and post-workshop questionnaires, 20 focus group discussions (FGD), and nine interviews with research staff, community advisory board members and other stakeholders were administered by AVAC staff primarily, to eliminate potential bias

  • Support increased for all 16 Good Participatory Practice (GPP) areas post-workshop with statistical significance levels varying between p

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Summary

Background

Compliance with ethical, regulatory, and scientific guidelines does not always guarantee consideration of external stakeholders’ concerns in research. In 2007, UNAIDS and AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention developed the Good Participatory Practice (GPP) Guidelines to ensure community and stakeholder engagement in biomedical HIV prevention research. In 2010-2011, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and AVAC conducted the first comprehensive evaluation of perceptions, practices and recommendations for improvement of participatory practice at eight IAVI-sponsored research centers (RCs) in Eastern and Southern Africa

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