Development of “HIV Web Depository” for Bangladesh.
(www.hivwebportal.org).
This web portal was a collaboration between Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Center for Health Population and Environment (CHPD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) in 2009.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nafisa Huq
Background
The web portal is an open data depository of published/unpublished research articles, reports, training materials, BCC materials, posters, and other relevant works done in HIV and AIDS sector in Bangladesh in the last 10-12 years.
This project was taken up with an objective to collect relevant HIV/AIDS materials from various institutions /organizations /authors as well as from the web and list them in order to make available at one site the diverse range of works done in HIV and AIDS sector in Bangladesh.
Objective
The aim is to facilitate distinct stakeholders to know and find out what has been done, find out gaps as well as reduce duplication of works in relevant HIV/AIDS sector in Bangladesh.