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Rona
Member

The Division of AIDS has done a form a stakeholder mapping when working on broader outreach, awareness initiatives.  For those efforts, we identified the highest priority populations to target and then organizations that would be most appropriate to partner with for building awareness, education and information dissemination.  While the partner groups were selected through an application process, we were careful to ensure a balance of national vs. local organizations, geographic distribution (within the US) and an adequate number of organizations targeting each of the key populations.
Stakeholder engagement is an ongoing process and DAIDS maintains most of its ongoing partnerships through its funded research networks and the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination, Legacy Project and the BTG website and listserv. DAIDS does maintain ongoing, direct partnerships through annual consultations, collaboration on forums, conference and satellite sessions, and around network and other types of meetings.