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MEASURE Evaluation, a USAID-funded project, supports improvements in
monitoring and evaluation population, health and nutrition worldwide.
Please find announcements of upcoming workshops and new publications below.

*Announcements*

*MEASURE Evaluation at XIX International AIDS Conference*

The biennial International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for
those working in the field of HIV, as well as policymakers, people living
with HIV and others committed to ending the epidemic. It is an opportunity
for researchers from around the world to share the latest scientific
advances in the field, learn from one another’s expertise, and develop
strategies for advancing all facets of our collective efforts to treat and
prevent HIV.

MEASURE Evaluation staff is contributing  ideas and sharing its knowledge
of HIV and evaluation at this year's conference.

Find out more at <http://goo.gl/95fpr>.

*Webinar*

*Community Trace and Verify in Tanzania*

Please join us for a Child Status Net webinar on the Community Trace and
Verify tool and a participatory M&E approach, both applied in Tanzania. The
discussion will be held at 10am EST on July 18th and will be led by Dawne
Walker, Resident Technical Advisor/Chief of Party for MEASURE Evaluation
Tanzania.

Find out more about the webinar at <http://goo.gl/nX7V6>.

*Publications*

*Maternal Autonomy and Attitudes Towards Gender Norms: Associations with
Childhood Immunization in Nigeria <http://goo.gl/pWTl9>*
Globally 2.5 million children under-five die from vaccine preventable
diseases, and in Nigeria only 23 % of children ages 12-23 months are fully
immunized. The international community is promoting gender equality as a
means to improve the health and well-being of women and their children.
This paper looks at whether measures of gender equality, autonomy and
individual attitudes towards gender norms, are associated with a child
being fully immunized in Nigeria.

*Ethnicity and HIV Risk in Guatemala <http://goo.gl/sOof4>*
Mayans and other indigenous groups make up approximately half of the
population in Guatemala, and previous research shows them to be highly
disadvantaged on nearly every indicator of health and well-being
(Gragnolati and Marini, 2003). Little is known, however, about the HIV risk
profile of these groups, or how it may differ from that of the
non-indigenous population. Evidence of these differences could inform
resource allocation and be used to improve HIV prevention intervention
strategies in the country.

Data on 16,205 women aged 15–49 and 6,822 men aged 15–59 who participated
in the 2008–2009 Encuesta Nacional de Salud Materno Infantil (ENSMI) were
used to describe differences between ethnic groups on a variety of
demographic and HIV variables.

*Using Health Facility Assessment Data to Address Programmatic Questions:
Illustrative Examples for Program Managers <http://goo.gl/d8Di9>*
This paper illustrates how health facility assessment data can be applied
to answer questions currently facing many health program managers.The
MEASURE Evaluation data demand and use conceptual framework is used as an
organizing construct, which depicts data demand and use as a cycle that
connects data demand, data collection/analysis, and information
availability to data use.

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