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Bill Melinda Gates Foudation
NIH
UNC-Chapel Hill
University of Chi
National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy
Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic FIC teamed up the NIH Office of AIDS Research with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support a study by the Institute of Medicine on antiretroviral therapy use in resource-poor settings. The final report, released in July 2004, made the following recommendations: (1) antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up efforts should proceed immediately through coordinated actions by national governments, donors, international organizations, and nongovernment organizations; (2) donors should commit to funding of ART strategies on the decade time-scale; (3) tuberculosis programs should continue to be supported in
conjunction with HIV/AIDS programs, given the number of dual-infected individuals; (4) expertise from AIDS training programs that are already in place should be used to inform and support the development of strategies to train clinicians; (5) monitoring and evaluation efforts must be incorporated in programs at their inception; and (6) operational research must be part of a comprehensive approach. FIC is considering the most appropriate next steps on this critical topic.
Strengthening Links Between Research Training and Schools of Public Health FIC and its grantees, the Schools of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and ohn Hopkins University are leading an effort to enhance public health training in key countries. Recognizing that professionals trained in research methodologies—including epidemiology, statistics, and other disciplines—are often the same individuals who play a key role back home in shaping the public health training enterprise, FIC has linked its training programs in key countries with embryonic efforts to build schools of public health. On a pilot basis, FIC grantees have been supported to establish such schools, or master’s of public health programs that will lead to schools, in Malawi and most recently in Russia. Another new entity, supported by FIC and its grantees in the Environmental and Occupational Health Training Program, played a critical role in establishing a new virtual school of public health in Ukraine (see next article). New efforts involving CDC and several Deans of schools of public health around the United States are underway to consider establishing a school of public health in India. FIC’s Zakir Bengali, Ph.D., Program Officer for South Asia, participated at the key meeting on this topic on September 16 in New Delhi (see article on page 5). As details about individual programs are collected, FIC will share information on these new efforts that link our long-standing training programs more closely with public health needs and with training programs in low- and middle-income nations