Suitable Monitoring Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource‐Poor Settings: Setting the Research Agenda

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Monitoring the response to antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings: the Malawi model.

With assistance from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Malawi is scaling-up the delivery of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to HIV-positive eligible patients. The country has developed National ARV Treatment Guidelines, which emphasize a structured and standardized approach for all aspects of ARV delivery, including monitoring and evaluation. Using the successful DOT...

Innovation in Informal Settings: A Research Agenda

Prolonged grief: setting the research agenda

BACKGROUND Prolonged grief disorder is proposed for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), though it was rejected as a diagnosis for DSM-5. OBJECTIVE This review outlines findings and defines important areas for future research viewed from a lifespan perspective. RESULTS The development and psychometric evaluation of measures for the new diagnosis is paramount, specifically ...

Menthol cigarettes: setting the research agenda.

The First Conference on Menthol Cigarettes was convened in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 21–22, 2002. The purpose of the conference was to evaluate the present state of the science concerning the potential increased harm caused by adding menthol to cigarettes, and to set the priorities for further studies of menthol cigarettes. More than 80 researchers and tobacco control experts participated in t...