We are pleased to announce that DC CFAR investigator Dr. Thespina (Nina) Yamanis (AU) in collaboration with colleagues at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania and UNICEF, has received an NIH Fogarty Institute's Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA) award for her project entitled "Using Implementation Science Research to Reach Out-of-School, Vulnerable AGYW in Tanzania with HIV Prevention and Livelihood Training".
Dr. Yamanis's project aims to "explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the livelihoods, health and HIV risk behaviors of out-of-school AGYW in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania" and "assess potential for scaling up HIV prevention and livelihood reach to out-of-school AGYW while maintaining safety precautions for COVID-19". The AHISA Small Project Funding Opportunity was open to AHISA members to incorporate COVID-19, using implementation science methodologies, into currently funded projects.
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