Public Health receives NIH grant for HIV Prevention in Zimbabwe

October 25, 2022

The National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded researchers at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health a two-year, $550,000 grant to develop and evaluate a pharmacy-based model to prevent high-risk women in Zimbabwe from contracting HIV.

The funded research project will be jointly led by Sandra McCoy, professor of epidemiology, in partnership with Euphemia Sibanda, an epidemiologist and implementation researcher at the Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Research Zimbabwe (CeSHHAR Zimbabwe) and senior lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Berkeley Research