MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative

Partner(s): Anke Ehrhardt HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Access: Private Released: February 2008 VIEW PROJECT

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.

This project was developed by CCNMTL in partnership with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at NYSPI and Columbia University and funded by the MAC AIDS Fund. The UCLA Program in Global Health is also a collaborator.

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MAC AID Leadership Initiative at Columbia and UCLA