Justin Parkhurst

TL;DR: The available evidence on their effectiveness is described and methodological challenges to the assessment of these often complex efforts to reduce HIV risk and vulnerability are discussed.

TL;DR: This paper provides a framework, examples, and some guidance for how to conceptualise, operationalise, measure, and evaluate complex social/structural approaches to HIV prevention to help situate them more concretely in a long-term strategy to end AIDS.

TL;DR: A systematic review of empirical studies that examined the influence of key features of political systems and institutional mechanisms on evidence use, and contextual factors that may contribute to the politicisation of health evidence highlights the need for a more explicit engagement with the political and institutional factors affecting the use of healthevidence in decision-making.

TL;DR: A comparative analysis was conducted based on extensive case studies of maternal health and health systems in Bangladesh, Russia, South Africa, and Uganda, finding the most important common systems issues underlying maternal health care were the human resource structures, the public-private mix of service provision, and the changes involved with health sector reforms.

TL;DR: Good governance of evidence as mentioned in this paper advocates the use of rigorous, systematic and technically valid pieces of evidence within decision-making processes that are representative of, and accountable to, populations served.