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25th August: Start of new MeSH Webinar Series on Strengthening Routine HIV Data

A new Webinar Series from MeSH on Strengthening Routine HIV Data will start on 25th August. The first talk will take place on 25th August, 12:00-13:00h BST and is looking into “Understanding the Transition Period into Sex Work and Service Access Gaps Among Young Women Who Sell Sex, and its Implications for HIV Programming.”

The series of webinars are running from August to November and focus on the work of brilliant women in the HIV field. They will discuss their contributions to strengthening the understanding, collection, analysis, and use of routine HIV data towards the aim of accelerating and tracking HIV decline in sub-Saharan Africa. Each webinar will be a live with 20-30 minutes of presentation, followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience.

For more information visit the MeSH website.

AREF Essential Grant Writing Course – Application deadline 20th August

During the weeks of 11 October and 15 November 2021, AREF are hosting an Essential Grant Writing Workshop for African health researchers from selected African countries.

The aim of this workshop is to enable talented early-career health- and health-related researchers to build skills to develop their own research and fellowship proposals of the quality required to win competitive international, regional, and national funding.

For more information and to find out about eligibility, please visit their website. Deadline to apply for this workshop is Friday 20 August. 

Funding for Training in mathematical modelling

The HIV Modelling Consortium will fund two candidates who are based in sub-Saharan Africa to attend a two-week online training course in mathematical modelling.

The course is aimed at policy-makers, public health professionals, academic researchers or anyone who needs to develop, use or interpret mathematical modelling for public health decision-making. Only a very basic mathematical ability is required to attend. The course runs from 6th-15th Sept 2021 and is organised by Imperial College London. More details are provided here: https://www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org.

 

HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa: the greatest gap is men

Morna Cornell and Leigh Johnson of IeDEA-SA recently co-authored an invited Comment for The Lancet to mark the 40th anniversary of the first cases of AIDS. Focusing on eastern and southern Africa, the epicentre of the pandemic, they noted the remarkable progress in access to HIV testing and care in sub-Saharan Africa, largely driven by activism and advocacy. They highlighted persistent gender disparities across the HIV continuum, with heterosexual men – particularly those aged 35-49 years – the largest unaddressed gap in HIV services.

The complete comment can be accessed here.

New IeDEA Working Group Leadership

We are pleased to welcome new leadership for IeDEA’s Working Groups. Marcel Yotebieng, co-PI of Central Africa IeDEAis joining Jonathan Golub of IeDEA Asia-Pacific as co-Chair of the Tuberculosis and Lung Health Working Group. Chad Achenbach of NA-ACCORD and Jessica Castilho, who works with both CCASAnet and NA-ACCORD, will co-Chair the Cancer Working Group. Our new TB-Sentinel Research Network will be co-Chaired by Olivier Marcy (West Africa) and Leslie Enane (East Africa), which will begin a multiregional, prospective cohort study across six IeDEA regions in 2021.

Thanks to our outgoing co-Chairs Amita Gupta (TB and Lung Health) and Julia Bohlius and Jeff Martin (Cancer) for their many years of support.