COURSE PROGRAMME
Day 1
9.00-9.30
Welcome
10.45-11.00
Introduction to population size estimates: Overview of who, why and
how
Break
11.00-11.45
Census, enumeration and mapping
11.45-13.00
13.00-14.00
14.00-15:00
Presentations by participants: Experiences and challenges of size
estimates in the countries
Lunch
Capture-recapture
15.00-15.15
Break
15.15-16.30
Exercise 1: Mapping and capture-recapture
9.30-10.45
Day 2
9.00-9.45
9.45-10.45
Multiplier method
Methods based on data collected from the general population:
10.45-11.00
Adding direct questions to population based surveys
Network scale-up
Break
11.00-12.30
Exercise 2: Population-based surveys and network scale-up
12.30-13.00
Choosing a method
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.20
Analysis, documentation and dissemination
14.20-15.00
15.00 –15.15
15.15- 16.30
Comparing diverging size estimates results obtained from the same
population
Break
Making national estimates using sub-national data
(Extrapolation)
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Day 3
9.00-9.45
9.45-10.15
Measuring coverage with interventions and using size estimation data
Global experiences in size estimates
10.15-10.30 Break
10.30-13.00 Group or individual work supported by facilitators
Option 1: Development of a protocol to implement most-at-risk population size
estimation studies
Option 2: Analysis of size estimation data that participant will bring with them
and writing up results for different audiences (journal publications, policy briefs,
etc)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Group or individual work supported by facilitators
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.30 Group or individual work supported by facilitators
Day 4
9.00-10.00
Use of geographic information system (GIS) to map HIV surveillance data
10.00-10.15 Break
10.15-13.00 Exercise 3: GIS
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.20 Group or individual work supported by facilitators
15.20-15.40 Break
15.40-16.30 Group or individual work supported by facilitators
Day 5
9.00-10.00
Presentations of group work, peer review and feed back
10.00-10.15 Break
10.15-12.30 Presentations of group work, peer review and feed back
12.30-13.00 Evaluations and closure
13.00-14.00 Lunch
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