Introduction: Brazil’s HIV burden has greatly increased over the past decade, especially for socially marginalized and vulnerable groups such as adolescents, women, and men who have sex with men. The reasoning for worsening HIV outcomes is complex, but ongoing economic and political crises have placed extreme operational and financial burdens on both the public health system and HIV-related civil society, affecting both treatment and prevention efforts and delivery. Context: Community-based HIV-related health-promotion activities have continued in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, despite these setbacks. These efforts have been led by a semi-independent community advisory board and engagement group based at the Hospital Geral de Nova Iguaçu with support from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Methods: The research team supported, documented, and participated in various activities led by the community advisory board and engagement group from 2017–2018 including meetings, community workshops/lectures, production of health promotion materials, and the dissemination of research findings. Results: The research team utilized the concepts of vernacular knowledge and critical pedagogy to describe and document the ongoing, bottom-up approach, community-led efforts of the community advisory board and engagement group. In particular, we describe the process of stakeholder engagement, popularization of research results, and resource sharing spearheaded by the community advisory board in Nova Iguaçu. Conclusion: The community advisory board demonstrates how community-led efforts are essential to HIV and AIDS response efforts in light of worsening HIV burdens and global shifts towards biomedicalization. Their HIV-related activities rely on existing community networks and resources with secondary support from a research team. This illustrates a key intervention point between traditional research and an empowering community mobilization that can inform similar efforts in other low-resource settings.

This is the protocol for the development of a Campbell Collaboration evidence and gaps map (EGM). The primary objective of this evidence and gap map (EGM) is to answer the following question: (1) What is the evidence connected with the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) for preventing and responding to sexual and gender‐based violence (SGBV) against women and children in lower‐ and middle‐income countries (LMIC)? (a) the EGM will provide a structured and accessible contextual framework for research to stakeholders and policymakers in SGBV and ICT; (b) the EGM will identify gaps in the available ICT and SGBV evidence; (c) the EGM will identify clusters of evidence suitable for systematic review; and (d) the EGM will look for and build connections between related areas of research in ICT and SGBV. As part of identifying the evidence connected with the use of ICT for preventing and responding to SGBV we seek to answer the following questions based upon the available evidence: Does the use of ICT prevent SGBV against women and children in LMIC? How effective is ICT at improving access to quality services for SGBV survivors in LMIC? Does the use of ICT contribute to effectively achieving intermediate outcomes that lead to the prevention of SGBV against women and children, and/or improving access for SGBV survivors to response services in LMIC? What are the enabling factors associated with the implementation of ICT and SGBV interventions?

O projeto Plataforma de Saberes: envolvimento e participação da comunidade em práticas inovadoras de promoção da saúde e produção de conhecimento promovido pelo Laboratório de Pesquisa em Epidemiologia e Determinação Social da Saúde (LAP-EPIDSS) do Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas (INI)/Fiocruz busca promover, de forma compartilhada, novas formas de produção de conhecimento permitindo uma constante troca de saberes. Este manuscrito tem como objetivo relatar a experiência e descrever a operacionalização de uma atividade que promoveu uma construção coletiva textual que envolveu membros de grupos sociais comunitários e pesquisadores em um evento promovido pelo LAP-EPIDSS comemorativo ao Dia Internacional do Contador de Histórias, em 20 de março de 2018. Esta experiência e permitiu repensar como arte e saúde dialogam em nosso cotidiano utilizando a contação de histórias como elemento norteador para reflexão de conhecimentos em promoção da saúde.  A metodologia utilizada para coleta de dados foi a observação participante e teve como ferramenta, para a construção coletiva, uma árvore em material reciclado com palavras dos participantes do evento. Assim, a partir da participação de todos emergiu um texto construído coletivamente com as reflexões sobre as expectativas para 2018. O evento trouxe a possibilidade do acesso à cultura, despertando nos participantes a imaginação, emoções, reflexões e esperança. Além disso, essa iniciativa proporcionou o envolvimento da ciência com a sociedade e ofereceu subsídios para a construção de conhecimentos sobre o conceito amplo de saúde. Experenciar um encontro com a arte, por meio da contação de histórias, possibilitou aos participantes abrir um caminho para a compreensão da sua saúde em seu sentido amplo e a compreender a arte, como parte integrante de um modelo contemporâneo de saúde.

Background: The use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) has increased significantly in the last several years, particularly in health, including related areas such as preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and children. While the evidence for ICT effectiveness has grown significantly in the