Grant: Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: HIV/AIDS

The GHRI has approved funding for a one of a kind Synchronicity Forum to be held January 17 to 19, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. Its objective is to promote inter-team communications and collaboration among the seven GHRI-funded Canadian-African capacity building networks. Its overall aim is to enhance the teams' innovative research work and thus accelerate the development of new HIV prevention and vaccine knowledge. The purpose of this application is also to enable the five CHVI Large Team Grant recipients to be represented at this forum, where they would join with the seven GHRI-funded networks, and use the Forum's potential for inter-network partnerships and collaboration. The applicants believe that the timing for such dynamic inter-team discussions is ideal, as it will bring them together while they are still in the early stages of their projects. It is a developmental goal of many of these networks to increase collaborations among Africans, within Africa. We also intend to build the social and basic sciences in HIV prevention research. In addition to their participation in the event itself, the large team grant delegates will also be eligible to submit abstracts for presentation and participate fully in the ancillary skills building workshops which will be held on the days before and after the Forum itself. These events will greatly strengthen the Networks' and Teams' research work, increase the uptake of Canada-Africa collaborations, and promote sustainable collaborations within Africa.