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Recommendations for increasing the use of HIV/AIDS resource allocation models
The article of record as published may be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-S1-S8Background: Resource allocation models have not had a substantial impact on HIV/AIDS
resource allocation decisions in spite of the important, additional insights they may provide. In this paper, we highlight six difficulties often encountered in attempts to implement such models in policy settings; these are: model complexity, data requirements, multiple stakeholders, funding
issues, and political and ethical considerations. We then make recommendations as to how each of these difficulties may be overcome.
Results: To ensure that models can inform the actual decision, modellers should understand the environment in which decision-makers operate, including full knowledge of the stakeholders' key issues and requirements. HIV/AIDS resource allocation model formulations should be contextualized and sensitive to societal concerns and decision-makers' realities. Modellers should provide the required education and training materials in order for decision-makers to be
reasonably well versed in understanding the capabilities, power and limitations of the model.
Conclusion: This paper addresses the issue of knowledge translation from the established
resource allocation modelling expertise in the academic realm to that of policymaking
QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories : challenges and perspectives
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a broad sweep of physical problems, in settings ranging from astrophysics and cosmology to strongly coupled, complex systems in particle and condensed-matter physics, as well as to searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. We also discuss how success in describing the strong interaction impacts other fields, and, in turn, how such subjects can impact studies of the strong interaction. In the course of the work we offer a perspective on the many research streams which flow into and out of QCD, as well as a vision for future developments.Peer reviewe