[Mahesh Ramrao]

As I told previously we have not done any work related to clinical trial and community stakeholder involvement in formative research but, In future we want to conduct HIV prevention clinical trials. So for  Formative research we will first find active community stakeholder who are having interest in research by doing survey at different areas, by conducting interview (telephonic/personal). With these community stakeholders we will organize meeting on topics, we want to conduct HIV prevention clinical trials, we want to do this kinds of research, How it will be beneficial for community, and tries to collect, understand, How much target population are there in community, what are the local norms, cultural and social issues, what are their expectations from research team, and How they are looking towards research. If all things going positive in favors of research and research team, then community advisory groups (CAG) will be formed, and knowledge about research will be deliver to CAG members. Then these trained/ Knowledgeable CAG members collect all information related formative research by visiting school, colleges, temples, mosques, churches, NGOs, different places, and help researcher to produce a community map. I think this will be the potential and meaningful involvement of community stakeholder in formative research activities.