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October 2002 USAID Renews Population Council's Horizons Program for Five Years The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) renewed funding for the Council’s Horizons program, which conducts operations research to improve HIV/AIDS prevention, care, support, and treatment services in developing countries. The five-year renewal comes at a time when operations research—which examines operational and cost-effectiveness issues surrounding responses to the AIDS epidemic—is of critical importance. USAID and Horizons have been collaborating since 1997 to identify cutting-edge issues in HIV/AIDS service delivery. They work in more than 20 countries. “We’ve learned a great deal about which behaviors place individuals at risk of HIV infection and what kinds of prevention and care approaches work, but we don’t yet understand all the operational mechanisms needed to implement successful interventions,” said Andrew Fisher, director of the Horizons program. “Operations research gives us the knowledge and tools to implement effective and affordable services in settings where resources are scarce.” Led by the Population Council, the Horizons partnership includes the International Center for Research on Women, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Tulane University, Family Health International, and Johns Hopkins University. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
