Putting Knowledge to Work: Technical Resource Networks for Effective Responses to HIV/AIDS

This document provides guidance to practitioners who seek to improve their networking skills for effectiveness in HIV/AIDS programmes and to groups of practitioners who are trying to establish an AIDS technical network in some specific geographical or thematic area of specialization. The complexity and scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have spawned a number of programmes aimed at influencing the course of the epidemic. There are wide variations in the scope, technical quality and...
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This document provides guidance to practitioners who seek to improve their networking skills for effectiveness in HIV/AIDS programmes and to groups of practitioners who are trying to establish an AIDS technical network in some specific geographical or thematic area of specialization. The complexity and scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have spawned a number of programmes aimed at influencing the course of the epidemic. There are wide variations in the scope, technical quality and effectiveness of these programmes. Although relatively successful efforts have been documented in various forms (including collections of 'best practices') the adaptation of these success stories has been slow and patchy. Technical Resource Networks (TRNs) constitute a means of accelerating, in a professional and systematic fashion, the spread of effective responses to HIV/AIDS. They are groups of individuals, communities, institutions or governments that work together towards a shared objective in the fight against AIDS.