Broad category of research influence | Specific areas in SRH, HIV and AIDS sector | Illustrative examples |
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Discursive changes | Change discourse | Opening new public spaces/discourses on representations of sexuality in Bangladesh (Rashid et al [11]) Challenging key academic or policy discourses, for example on health economics and on Children and HIV, and gender and masculinities (Crichton and Theobald [3]) |
Content changes | Change laws/policies | Change in law to exempt survivors of gender-based violence from paying medical costs (Tulloch et al [9]) Research to analyse the process of uptake of Cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in Zambia, Uganda and Malawi and draw out lessons on policy change (Hutchinson et al [5]) |
Procedural changes | Change how health-related government ministries or agencies analyse their data on service delivery | Gender disaggregated data and equity analysis of ART data now part of MoH processes (REACH Trust, Malawi) (Crichton and Theobald [3]) |
Behavioural changes | Raise awareness of and access to research and capacity to understand it. | Media engagement and media capacity building: Raising awareness about health and rights through an entertaining and engaging drama – Makutano Junction (Oronje et al [6]) |
 | Support attitudinal change | The Pleasure Project’s global mapping of pleasure used research to promote sexy safe sex (Knerr & Philpott [12]) |
 | Build national capacity to carry out research and identify the policy implications | Research was undertaken on OVC within the Ministry of Health and links developed with other government departments (Gyapong et al [13]) |