"The East-West Center’s collaboration with A2 project partners in Vietnam over the past two years has led to positive changes in the Ho Chi Minh City action plan for AIDS, which in turn strengthened the local response. The team is now looking to streamline the process in order to replicate it in other sites,” according to Tim Brown, East-West Center Senior Fellow, and member of the team heading up the project.
A decade ago, the East-West Center began developing computer models for tracking and projecting the spread of HIV. Today, the EWC-developed software enables national health programs throughout the region to analyze their local HIV epidemics and develop effective policy responses. EWC Senior Research Fellow Tim Brown and teams of regional and international counterparts in Bangladesh, China, Thailand and Vietnam have implemented the continuing project ‘Integrated Analysis and Advocacy to Improve HIV Responses in Asia.'
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For more information, please contact East-West Center Senior Fellow Tim Brown at (808) 944-7476 or BrownT@EastWestCenter.org
The EAST-WEST CENTER is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region.