Twist in the Mwanza tale did one HIV research study shift global policy?
Phillpott, Anne / 1999

A recent study has surveyed and analysed the ways UK-based researchers and policymakers see linkages between research and policy, in relation to a particularly well-known case study arising from 1995 research into HIV prevention in Mwanza, Tanzania. The Mwanza study seems to have had a dramatic impact on policy reformulation in many countries. Did it really exert such leverage? If so, how did it and why? Can existing theoretical models of the research-policy interface account for it?