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Reaching regional consensus on improved behavioural and sero-surveillance for HIV Report from a regional conference in East Africa

30 May 1998

This report documents a regional workshop on surveillance systems for HIV held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 10-13 February 1997. The UNAIDS-funded workshop gathered government epidemiologists, AIDS programme managers, and social scientists from Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe as well as specialists from UNAIDS and other partner institutions. The group aimed to present current data and to work together to suggest practical guidelines for improving HIV surveillance systems in a maturing epidemic.