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Program Director : Dr Judith Levy;
Country Coordinator : Dr Kathleen Norr and Dr Chrissie P.N. Kaponda.

This program was funded by Forgarty in 2000. The UIC-AITRP partners for AIDS research capacity building with institutions in Chile, China, Indonesia and Kamuzu College of Nursing at the University of Malawi. At UIC, this is a joint program between the UIC College of Nursing and School of Public Health. Currently the program is sponsoring 3 PhD students and has already sponsored one Masters graduate. Other incountry AITRP training opportunities include workshops in AIDS research methods, ethics support for post doctoral studies for Malawi scholars at UIC and support for US minority AIDS research internships in Malawi.

The AIDS Research Program : Principal Investigator and Project Director : Dr Chrissie P.N Kaponda and Dr Judith Levy of UIC. This program was funded in 2002 by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) through the NIH Partnership in Africa Initiative. The program is designed to build research excellence at KCN that facilitates innovative behavioural science research to improve the effectiveness of AIDS prevention care and support in Malawi. The program offers research support to Malawi and International investigators and sponsors three behavioral science HIV/AIDS pilot projects.

Other collaborating institutions. KCN is now in the process of developing other collaborations with the University of San Fransisco, California School of Nursing and the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina to address issues of collaborative research, nursing education and practice.