CDC awards Johns Hopkins consortium $4 million to help develop model training and delivery
programs to prevent HIV infection
04 February 2003
Baltimore, Md. – A consortium of Johns Hopkins
University affiliates will assist HHS's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to
implement a worldwide initiative to reduce transmission of the HIV virus from mothers
to their children.
Under a five-year, $4 million grant from CDC, a consortium of Johns
Hopkins schools and affiliates, led by Jhpiego, will develop model training and service
delivery programs that will enable communities around the world to build and sustain
their response to the AIDS epidemic.
Jean Anderson, MD, editor of "A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women
with HIV," published by HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration, and Jhpiego's
HIV/AIDS medical advisor, is the principal investigator for the CDC grant. Anderson will
work closely with the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health,
Center for Communication Programs and the Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention
in Africa.
"This is a university grant," said Kai Spratt, PhD, recently selected to
head Jhpiego's new Office of HIV/AIDS. "We will access the expertise of ongoing research
at Johns Hopkins to design programs that can be adapted to meet the prevention and
treatment needs of each community," said Spratt, PhD.
Spratt said Jhpiego's expertise in HIV/AIDS programs worldwide would
enable it to help CDC scale up the GAP program in priority countries. These programs
will focus on preventing mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV infection, care
and treatment of mothers and newborns and evaluation and assessment of the effectiveness
of program implementation.
Jhpiego and its partners currently administer wide range of HIV/AIDS
prevention, treatment and counseling programs and infection prevention initiatives in
Zambia, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, South Africa, Ethiopia and the Caribbean.
The overall objectives of CDC's Global AIDS Program (GAP) are to
reduce HIV transmission through primary prevention of sexual, mother-to-child and
blood transmission; improve community- and home-based care and treatment of HIV and
sexually transmitted diseases and opportunistic infections; and strengthen the capacity
of countries to collect and use surveillance data to manage national HIV/AIDS programs.
About Jhpiego
For 35 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health
workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that
strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the
household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to
national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through
advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance
improvement approaches.
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