This study combines metrics approaches, contributing to priority setting methodology development, with country and regional level stakeholder participation.
7 Estimates of the economic burden of illness can provide useful information for priority setting, policy development, assessment of health technologies and investment in prevention and clinical services.
This study combines strong metrics approaches, such as the coherence analysis, which contributes to priority setting methodology development, with country and regional level stakeholders' participation.
Applying a systematic gender framework to five key process stages – priority setting, product development, clinical trials, commercialization, and delivery – could be a first step towards unlocking the opportunities of this promising science for women in the developing world.
The topics explored were: (1) currently available POCTs, (2) perceived barriers to using POCTs in the participant's practice setting, (3) priority setting for the development of new POCT for STIs, (4) envisioned characteristics of an ideal POCT, and (5) acceptable levels of sensitivity, specificity and predictive values.
A valuable component of such priority setting is the development, implementation, and use of guidelines [ 28].
Also, we observed that the group of policy makers and VHVs - although not PLWHA respondents - applauded the systematic approach for priority setting, including the development of relevant criteria, the presentation of the performance of interventions against these criteria, and the deliberative process.
Other activities included the creation of a directory of institutions, researchers and other stakeholders in the health policy field, training workshops in skills such as priority setting and the development of policy briefs, and the establishment of a clearinghouse to enable easy access to policy briefs and relevant academic literature [ 24, 32].
This matrix may be used for priority setting in research and development work.
Our MEPI partnership relies heavily on local priority setting and emphasizes the development of local expertise to sustain the infrastructure for research and training.
