The Fogarty International Center's HIV Research Training Program is issuing 22 awards, including one to UW Global Health's own Dr. Carey Farquhar. Dr. Farquhar's training grant, Improving the HIV Care Cascade in Kenya through Implementation Science Training, will focus on building capacity at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the largest teaching and referral hospital in Kenya, to improve HIV testing, linkage to care, antiretroviral initiation, adherence and retention in care, a continuum known as the HIV care cascade.
The awards are intended to strengthen the ability of the grantee institutions to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, while building expertise in a particular scientific or critical research infrastructure area. Successful applicants proposed a broad range of focus topics including nutrition, mental health, co-infections and various aspects of implementation science, among others.
"These awards, which comprise the first round of funding for this new program, will help scientists and clinicians in developing countries to build much-needed research infrastructure," said Fogarty Director Dr. Roger Glass. "The resulting advances will benefit all, providing trainees the opportunity to collaborate with NIH researchers on U.S. government-funded HIV/AIDS initiatives."
The awards are partly supported by NIH funding partners, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).