Train AIDS Vaccine Researchers in Kenya

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Summary

Women are especially vulnerable to AIDS, both socially and biologically. Doctors and technicians doing AIDS vaccine research need to be trained on sensitivities of dealing with the disease in women. progress reportread updates from the field

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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $949 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Improving awareness of gender and sexuality issues is crucial to ensuring that an effective vaccine is available and acceptable to all vulnerable groups. KAVI plans to train approximately 400 healthcare providers a year. The providers will be selected from the five provinces in Kenya where HIV vaccine work is being done. This will require 10 to 15 workshops of 3 days, each over the course of the year.

Activities

Gender training includes gender sensitization, meaning of gender, impact of gender on health, health-seeking behavior, utilization of services, impact on decision making, gender as it impacts sexuality and HIV prevalence.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $949

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $949.  The original project funding goal was $60,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Training healthcare providers on the importance of gender will reduce stigma, which is especially severe for women. Providers will understand women's needs to give them better care. It will also have important implications for HIV vaccine trials.

Project Message

Gender issues raise important challenges in HIV/AIDS prevention and control. Understanding and addressing these challenges is key to the success of HIV research.
- Professor Jeck Ndinya-Achola, Co-principal investigator, KAVI

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Professor Jeck Ndinya-Achola,
Co-Principal Investigator
Univeristy of Nairobi
Kenyatta National Hospital
Nairobi,
Kenya
+254 2 717 694
Email:

Project Sponsor

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Organization

Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative (KAVI)
University of Nairobi
Kenyatta National Hospital
Nairobi, - -
Kenya
+254 2 717-694
http://www.kaviuon.org

Learn more about Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative (KAVI) and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 31, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Integrating Gender Issues into AIDS Vaccine Rearch: Training Manual for Sub-Saharan Africa

By IAVI - IAVI, August 06, 2008 05:45 PM

At the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, IAVI launched its new publication "Integrating Gender Issues into AIDS Vaccine Rearch: Training Manual for Sub-Saharan Africa." See attached for the publication announcement. For free copies of the training manual, please email jwiemer@iavi.org.
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