Mapping the Microbicide Effort

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Mapping the Microbicide Effort (2007)

Description

When the Microbicide Development Strategy was presented to the Microbicide Donors' Committee (MDC) in London in November 2005, the MDC suggested that the MDS would be even more valuable to donors, researchers, developers, and advocates if there was an additional complementary exercise that would "map" current and immediately prospective activities in the microbicide field against the priorities identified in the MDS. In response to that request, the Alliance invited key organizations working in microbicide research, development, and advocacy to the Alliance's Annual Meeting in March 2006 to report on their activities, using the framework of the MDS Priority Gaps. Additional organizations were contacted thereafter with the same invitation. Altogether, more than 30 organizations responded. Mapping the Microbicide Effort is the result of that process.

The goal of the Mapping the Microbicide Effort was to generate a succinct yet comprehensive review of the current work and future plans at key organizations engaged in microbicide research and development. It is intended to be a "living" document and will be updated regularly. As the first of this sort of review, Mapping the Microbicide Effort is meant to contribute to ongoing dialogue, to encourage fresh perspective and synergistic activity, and, for areas that are emerging or where there is relatively little activity, to encourage new attention and investment. Ultimately, this document is a "catalogue of opportunity," describing specific areas of work that must be supported now to hasten the day when safe, effective, acceptable, and affordable microbicides are used to prevent HIV worldwide. It is the Alliance's hope, in its next iteration, to integrate the Mapping the Microbicide Effort with the work of the HIV/AIDS Vaccines and Microbicide Resource Tracking Group, so that it can assist in providing useful and targeted information about the levels of funding required to implement priority actions in a way that can guide investment with maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

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To order print copies of Mapping the Microbicide Effort, contact Lois Holston at lholston@microbicide.org or 301-587-9690.