HIV/AIDS news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Fogarty has made significant investments in research training to combat HIV/AIDS. The AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) was the first of its kind and has built public health capacity in 100 low- and middle-income countries. A second program, International Implementation, Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Award for AIDS and Tuberculosis (IICOHRTA-AIDS/TB) was developed to strengthen the capacity to conduct clinical research and implementation science, including operations and health services research focused on HIV infection, TB, and HIV/TB co-infection prevention, care and treatment. The programs have been combined to form the Fogarty HIV Research Training Program.

The lack of health professionals trained to cope with AIDS remains an obstacle to in sub-Saharan Africa, where the illness is the leading cause of death. To address this, HHS partnered with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to transform medical education in sub-Saharan Africa. The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), administered by Fogarty and HRSA, is designed to increase the quantity and quality of health care workers and researchers throughout the

Recent Global HIV/AIDS News

• Measuring Innovation: Laboratory Infrastructure to Deliver Essential HIV Clinical Trial Results
  NIAID News, January 3, 2025
• Studying the intersection of HIV and breast cancer in Botswana
  Global Health Matters, November/December 2024
• Initiation and continued use of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis among pregnant and postpartum women in South Africa (PrEP-PP): a demonstration cohort study
  The Lancet, November 11, 2024
• Kidney transplantation between donors and recipients with HIV is safe
  NIH News, October 16, 2024
• Monitoring HIV drug resistance in Zimbabwe
  Global Health Matters, September/October 2024
• Breakthrough Lenacapavir Trial Builds on Decades of NIH Investment in Basic Science
  NIH Office of AIDS Research Director’s blog, October 2, 2024
• SARS-CoV-2 Rapidly Evolves in People with Advanced HIV
  NIAID Now blog, September 9, 2024
• Can acceptance dismantle stigma and reduce HIV rates in Nepal?
  Global Health Matters, July/August 2024
• Charting the Path to an HIV-Free Generation
  NIAID Now blog, August 12, 2024
• Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Evaluated in Many HIV Cure Strategies
  NIAID Now blog, August 6, 2024

Fogarty Grant Recipient & Trainee Publications

• Barriers and facilitators of cervical cancer screening literacy among rural women with HIV attending rural public health facilities in East Central Uganda: a qualitative study using the integrated model of health literacy, co-authored by Fogarty trainee Juliana Namutundu
  BMC Women’s Health, September 9, 2024
• Coping strategies, challenges and potential interventions among adult patients with HIV and mental illness comorbidity in southwestern Uganda, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Celestino Obua
  Global Public Health, July 11, 2024
• Supplement: Implementation research and the HIV response: Taking stock and charting the way forward
  Journal of the International AIDS Society, July 5, 2024
  • Examining barriers to antiretroviral therapy initiation in infants living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa despite the availability of point-of-care diagnostic testing: a narrative systematic review, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Mina C. Hosseinipour and Victor Mwapasam and Fogarty trainees Maggie Nyirenda Nyang'wa, Mitch Matoga, and Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando
  • Providing HIV-assisted partner services to partners of partners in western Kenya: an implementation science study, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Carey Farquhar and Fogarty trainees Barbara Wanjiku Mambo, Sarah Masyuko, Beatrice Wamuti, Paul Macharia, and Rose Bosire
  • Effectiveness of HIV self-testing when offered within assisted partner services in Western Kenya (APS-HIVST Study): a cluster randomized controlled trial, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Carey Farquhar Carey Farquhar Farquhar and Fogarty trainees Sarah Masyuko, Paul Macharia, and Rose Bosire

Related Fogarty News and Information

Call for applications: Implementation science to address HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

Apply to be part of the NIH-PEPFAR Local Implementation Science Network (LISN) which aims to build and strengthen local implementation science alliances in sub-Saharan African countries to address priorities related to HIV.

Learn more about LISN

Call for applications  (Deadline: November 4, 2024)

Register for the October 15 pre-application webinar

NIH News and Resources

• Research new from the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR)
  
• HIV/AIDS news from the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (NIAID)
• HIV/AIDS information from the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus
  

Other US Government Resources

• U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• Annual Reports to Congress on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• HIV.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on HIV/AIDS
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on HIV and AIDS

Other Online Resources

• International AIDS Society
• International AIDS Conferences
• UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• World AIDS Day - December 1 (annually)
• World Bank and HIV/AIDS [Brief]
• World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS

Updated January 8, 2025