University of California San Diego/Universidad Autónoma de Baja California/ San Diego State University/ El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Country:
Mexico
Award Date:
2005
Award Amount:
$498,637.00
Cost Share:
$661,228.00
Other Partners:
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Flying Samaritans, CIRAD, International Relief Teams, AFABI
The partnership between UCSD, UABC, SDSU, and COLEF will build on their collaboratory history in HIV/AIDS research to create an HIV/AIDS prevention program in northwestern Mexico and surrounding regions. The project intends to develop a binational infrastructure for training Mexican nationals in HIV/AIDS prevention and program evaluation to meet the demands of the emerging HIV epidemic in these regions. The partnership will offer educational opportunities at the master’s level for Mexican nationals in Tijuana in HIV/AIDS prevention, program evaluation, and policy-making and facilitate a visiting scholars program at UCSD and SDSU for researchers from Mexico. In addition, the partnership will create sustainable mechanisms whereby undergraduates, graduate, and medical students in Tijuana and San Diego gain hands-on experience in HIV/AIDS prevention activities in Baja California. The focus of this program is consistent with the goal of Mexico’s National HIV Prevention Control Program to contain HIV/AIDS and mitigate its impact on health in the border region, with a focus on high risk and vulnerable populations.