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MEDIA CENTER Council Hosts Meeting to Set Priorities for Research and Action on HIV/AIDS, Migration, and Related Themes MEXICO CITY (1–3 February 2006) — The Population Council’s regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation, hosted a three-day multidisciplinary experts meeting in Mexico City to develop an agenda of priorities for research and action in migration, sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, and related themes. More than fifty experts from Mexico, the United States, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador participated. The meeting confirmed the pressing need for operations research in the field of HIV/AIDS and migration. Research has been successfully used to design prevention and care interventions, and to increase the visibility and importance of migration and HIV/AIDS on the political agenda and in public policy. Two successful examples from Latin America are:
However, challenges for translating existing research results into practice and policies persist, and very few of the existing programs for mobile and migrant populations have been evaluated to determine their effectiveness and impact. Meeting participants also emphasized the need to increase capacity for monitoring national, regional, and international agreements related to human rights, treatment, care, and prevention in HIV/AIDS and migration to ensure government accountability. Additional information about the Population Council's HIV/AIDS-related operations research can be found on the Horizon's Program pages. (more)
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