MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative
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Partner(s):
Anke Ehrhardt HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Access: Private Released: February 2008 |
The MAC AIDS Leadership Initiative trains fellows from South Africa in HIV/AIDS prevention at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. The initiative is a 12-month training program designed to cultivate new leaders in HIV/AIDS prevention who will make a major contribution to advocacy and programming at the local, regional, or national levels within South Africa. This web-based environment is designed to help the program meet its objectives of training these emerging leaders on reducing the spread of HIV and the impact of AIDS by addressing the role of gender inequality.
The MAC AIDS Community Forum is a collaborative space where fellows and program mentors can share and access materials while at Columbia University for the initial two-month training program and when they return to South Africa. Trainees also use the site to develop prevention intervention plans and to receive feedback from their mentors and peers. As trainees implement their intervention plans, their experiences will be tracked and documented in the Forum.
The MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative project was developed in partnership with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at NYSPI and Columbia University. The UCLA Program in Global Health was also a collaborator. The project was funded by the MAC AIDS Fund.
The MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative is a Global Learning Initiative project.Related project categories:
Collaborative Sites | Medicine and Health
Related links:
View the MAC AID Leadership Initiative website
