Presented at the Nigeria End-of-Phase-III Event in June 2014.

1. Supporting HIV/AIDS Research and Surveillance
Dr. Adedayo Adeyemi
MEASURE Evaluation Abuja
&
Dr. Ade Bashorun
HIV/AIDS Division,
Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja
MEASURE Evaluation
End-of-Phase III Meeting, June 18, 2014

2. Outline:
 Objective
 Introduction
 Strategies
 Contributions
 Next Steps
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3. Objective:
 The objective of this presentation is to showcase
the support of MEASURE Evaluation in the
planning and implementation of research,
surveillance, survey and evaluation
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4. Introduction:
 In 2009, MEASURE Evaluation with Government of
Nigeria and other stakeholders conducted
“Assessment of National HIV/AIDS Monitoring and
Evaluation (M&E) System” using the UNAIDS 12-
component tool
 The assessment produced some key strategic
results that contributed to research, surveillance,
survey and evaluation at national and sub-national
levels
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5. Surveillance, Surveys and Research:
Key Results from the Assessment
 No inventory of research and evaluation studies
 Little coordination of the various research and evaluation
efforts including surveillance and surveys
 Lack of National HIV Research Agenda
 Poor capacity for research
 Need for recruitment of specialized professionals like
epidemiologist, Biostatistician and Research Officers
 Need to identify key evaluation and research questions,
and coordinate studies to meet the national needs
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6. Strategies - I
 Partnership, collaboration and consultation with
stakeholders
 Training, mentoring and coaching
 Served as member of technical committees or
taskforce
 Strategic Knowledge Management TWG
 Impact Evaluation TWG
 Mathematical modeling TWG
 HIV National Survey committees
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7. Strategies - II
 Reviewed and made technical inputs into:
 Design, sampling, sample size determination,
and modeling
 Facilitated and participated in training, data
analysis and supervision to ensure quality
assurance
 Report writing
 Use of results
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8. Contributions - 1
HIV National Research Agenda
MEASURE Evaluation provided technical support in the
development of the agenda
Served as a member of HIV Research Reference
Group
 To operationalize HIV Research agenda
 To support Government’s efforts in commissioning and
implementing researches like NACA operations
research
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9. Contributions - 11
 Survey and Surveillance to generate information
needed to monitor HIV response
 MEASURE Evaluation supported in the areas of
planning including sample size calculation,
implementation, supervision, analysis and report
writing
 Examples of such surveys include:
 Integrated Biological Behavioral Surveillance Survey
2010
 National HIV/AIDS Reproductive Health Survey 2012
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10. Contributions - 111
EPP/Spectrum used to project and estimate some HIV
indicators
MEASURE Evaluation contributed to EPP/Spectrum
through facilitation; sample size and standard error
estimation, and population of the model for estimations
These contributions were instrumental to some
indicators like:
 Total number of people living with HIV/AIDS
 Number of AIDS death
 Number of new infections etc
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11. Contributions - IV
MEASURE Evaluation is currently contributing to:
Chair and membership of mathematical modeling
TWG
 The mandate is to contribute to HIV strategic
information and evaluation using mathematical
models
Importantly, the group is finalizing reports with
regards to some research questions of national
importance
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12. Contributions - V
Other MEASURE Evaluation contributions include:
Cost efficiency study in the areas of review of research
tool, sample size calculation and sampling
Local Epidemic Appraisal (knowing your epidemic):
support in the implementation of the study at the sub-
national level
NACA’s impact evaluation study on averting new HIV
Infections among Female-Sex Workers, their Clients and
Communities. The supports were in sample size
calculation, random sampling and randomization
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13. Contributions - VI
 Supported and mentored Government staff in the
preparation of abstracts and papers for international
conferences
 Such conferences include EDCTP, IAS, AIDS and ICASA
 Conduct of Early warning indicator (a facility survey)
 Capacity building of Government staff for research
and data analysis.
 In July 2013, 24 Government Staff were trained in
quantitative and qualitative data analyses
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14. Next Steps
 Build more capacity for research, evaluation and data
analysis
 Contribute to Government’s efforts in program science to
improve HIV, TB and malaria programming
 Strengthen research implementation in Research
Reference Group, Study Technical Committees & TWGs
 Provide support for the conduct of evaluation with a
special focus on scientifically rigorous impact evaluation
 Strengthen national and sub-national data use for
evidence based programming through triangulation,
systematic review and mathematical modeling
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15. THANK YOU!
MEASURE Evaluation is a MEASURE project funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development and implemented by the
Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group International, ICF
Macro, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, and
Tulane University. Views expressed in this presentation do not
necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. Government.
MEASURE Evaluation is the USAID Global Health Bureau's primary
vehicle for supporting improvements in monitoring and evaluation in
population, health and nutrition worldwide.
Visit us online at http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure
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