Academy for Educational Development

The Ghana SHARP project (Strengthening HIV/AIDS Response Partnerships), managed by AED (Academy for Educational Development), is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Ghana through a five-year cooperative agreement to implement a project that seeks to use an evidence and researched-based approach to identify most-at-risk groups, understand their needs, and develop targeted interventions based on these results.

The project has four interrelated goals:

• *Conducting operations research and second-generation surveillance to guide evidence-based HIV programming across the continuum of care.
  
• Supporting the establishment and expansion of interventions among most-at-risk groups and in high transmission areas.
  
• Strengthening capacities of the national response at all levels.
  
• Maintaining and ensuring HIV/AIDS program information and results reporting integrated with the Government of Ghana (GOG) program.

The project includes an array of research, capacity building and clinical interventions with public, private and NGO sector partners as well as other donors and USAID implementing organizations. At the national level, the team works with the Ghana Health Service and the National AIDS Control Program, at the regional level with health planning bodies, and at the district and community levels with multiple traditional and formal sector entities.