I would like to acknowledge the input from colleagues at the Blair Research Institute, the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, the Human Sciences Research Council, and from collaborating agencies that gave views on the contents of the article.
In our study, African trials were more likely to be based in single centres, but in many of the African trials collaborating agencies and trial investigators were from different countries, with European or North American agencies working in partnership with African researchers [15].
In Kentucky, a memorandum of understanding was drafted that outlined roles and responsibilities of collaborating agencies.
"This sort of package support by collaborating agencies works very well.
This survey covered organizational characteristics (sector, HIV/AIDS experience, collaborating agencies, scope of services), current and target activities and capacity for ART, and staffing for HIV/AIDS care and for ART-related activities.
2. The extent to which collaborating agencies or partnering institutions who can directly or indirectly influence implementation are aware of the SSF. 3. Determine how many workshops, seminars, focus group discussions, radio programmes, website hits etc have been held.
Data on FETP course offerings, the training competencies (that is, outbreak investigation, surveillance system development and evaluation and management and leadership, et cetera), and criteria for residents to apply to the programme, the proportion of field versus didactic training, and collaborating agencies and organizations were abstracted from the membership surveys.
The data thus gathered by the national collaborating agencies were compiled and emailed to the researchers for validation.
We review efforts of WHO and collaborating agencies to track and fight the TB/HIV co-epidemic, and discuss modeling via mathematical, statistical, and computational approaches as a means to identify disease indicators designed to integrate data from linked diseases in order to characterize how co-epidemics change in time and space.
Further efforts on behalf of WHO and collaborating agencies in the fight against the TB/HIV co-epidemic include the establishment of research priorities specifically crafted to guide policy development (health system and policy research) and implementation of joint TB/HIV activities (operational research and targeted evaluation) [12].
The collaborating agencies are Rural Health Office of Jiangxi Provincial Health Bureau, Health Bureau of Chongyi County, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales.
