Sec. 201. Support for operations research to improve program delivery, efficiency, impact, and effectiveness
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It is the sense of the Congress that there is a need and urgency to expand the range of interventions for preventing the transmission of HIV, including behavioral prevention research, operations research to optimize combination HIV prevention, and research on medical technology to prevent HIV infection, including microbicides, cost-effective female condoms, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), multipurpose technologies for the prevention of HIV and unintended pregnancy, and vaccines.
It should be the policy of the United States to ensure that efforts to combat HIV/AIDS globally should expand, intensify, and coordinate operations research to improve the quality, delivery, and impact of programming, including with respect to— services appropriate for men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, and sex workers; structural interventions to remove barriers that inhibit effective implementation of HIV/AIDS-related foreign assistance, including the analysis of laws and policies that have a negative health impact and put individuals at increased risk of HIV infection; scalable combination of prevention and treatment approaches to HIV/AIDS; prevention and management of co-morbidities such as tuberculosis, malaria, and viral hepatitis; and identification and follow up of HIV-positive infants and children in resource-limited settings to increase the proportion of children accessing HIV treatment and care services.