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 The CAPRISA training programme has as its goal to enhance skills and contribute to strenthening the science base to undertake
HIV/AIDS research in South Africa and beyond. To be eligible for a CAPRISA Fellowship, an excellent acandemic record and strong
interest in Health Science, Public Health and Medicine with special emphasis in HIV/AIDS and TB research is required.
In addition to sponsored fellowhips, CAPRISA hosts the Fogarty/Ellison Oversease Fellowship in Global Health and Clinical Research
Training and World Health Organization Fellowships.
Columbia University - Southern African Fogarty AIDS and TB International Research and Training Programme
The Columbia University - Southern Africa AIDS & TB International Training Programme (AITRP) is funded by the
Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health, USA. This programme, now in its fourteenth year of
existence, offers a unique, prestigious and challenging training opportunity to promising researchers early in their
careers, in the fields of basic science, epidemiology, social science and bio-ethics related to HIV/AIDS and
Tuberculosis. Only citizens of South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland are eligible.
Fogarty-Ellison Fellowship
Programme
In May 2003, CAPRISA was identified as an "outstanding research training experience" and was nominated
as a site to host US doctoral level students in health professions. CAPRISA was selected from a large number of potential
programmes because of their existing capacity to provide valuable clinical research training experience to Fogarty-Ellison
scholars. Central to the programme is pairing the US trainees with a comparable level student from the host site to work
collaboratively on the same projects. The programme began in July 2004. Two trainees, one from Duke and the other from Tulane,
began their fellowship year with a three week orientation programme at NIH, focused on clinical research, bioethics, problem
solving and personal health and safety. The two paired SA trainees also attended the NIH training. Following the training at
NIH, they joined the programme at CAPRISA in Durban in August 2004.
Fogarty AIDS International
Training and Research Program (AITRP)
CAPRISA's training programme is closely linked to the Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program. Professor Q Abdool Karim, Head of the Women and AIDS Programme of CAPRISA, is Principal Investigator of the Fogarty sponsored Columbia University - South African AIDS training program. The CU-SA Fogarty AITRP grant has been crucial for training South Africans in epidemiology, biostatistics, virology and immunology. Building on its initial success in training epidemiologists, training opportunities are now provided in HIV/STI/tuberculosis basic science, public health and behavioural science with a nascent but growing ethics component. Several of the research staff of CAPRISA have been trained through the Fogarty AITRP.
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