The aim of this initiative is to collaboratively manage knowledge about good practice and lessons learnt in German contributions to the global response to HIV.
German HIV Practice Collection
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Welcome to the website of the German HIV Practice Collection!

The German HIV Practice Collection was launched in September 2004 by German and international HIV experts working in in the complex and dynamic fields of HIV stigma reduction, prevention, care, treatment, support, and impact mitigation.

The aim of the series is to share lessons learnt and effective approaches emerging from German-supported HIV responses world-wide.

To be published in this series, an application for documentation by a German-supported programme must first be approved as relevant and timely by an advisory board of HIV experts of the four German implementing organisations and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. It is then carefully researched and documented by a professional writer, who works closely with the responsible organisations in the partner countries and the German experts supporting them.

The resulting write-up is submitted to two independent international peer reviewers with solid expertise in the particular subject area. It is their task to assess whether the approach is ‘state of the art’ and to what extent it meets the selection criteria (see text box) of the German HIV Practice Collection. Only approaches that are approved as ‘good practice’ or ‘promising practice’ by these external reviewers will then be published as contributions to the Practice Collection.
The German HIV Practice Collection promotes collaborative knowledge management in the sense of “getting the right people, at the right moment, to discuss the right thing.”
Criteria for good or promising practice

• Effectiveness
•Transferability
•Participatory and empowering approach
•Gender sensitivity
•Quality of monitoring and evaluation
•Innovation
•Comparative cost-effectiveness
•Sustainability

Such discussions happen
…..when HIV experts and officials in partner countries together with their German technical advisors jointly define and document their innovative approaches;
.....when international peer reviewers assess these and highlight their strengths as well as areas that need further thought and work;
…..when the long, short and html-versions of the publications are shared widely amongst interested colleagues world-wide and inspire discussion as well as attempts to replicate the described approaches and to adapt the tools that are provided in internet toolboxes for downloading.

The project “Strengthening the German contribution to the global AIDS response” is responsible for the coordination of the review processes and the production of the publications. It is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH - German Technical Cooperation. For more information, contact the Managing Editor at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it