Social Science Research Council

The Social Science Research Council awarded eight fellowships in 2006-2007 to African researchers for improving HIV/AIDS and public health policy responses to HIV/AIDS related sexual violence and care-giving. Eleven fellows, representing five countries most affected by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, were selected from more than 140 applications. Funding for this program is generously provided by the Open Society Institute’s Network Public Health Program.

SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS

• Deborah Budlender and Penny Parenzee (South Africa) Who cares about the carers? Care work in HIV/AIDS policies and programmes
  
  
• Anne Kamau (Kenya) Investigating circumcision-related sexual violence among adolescent boys in Kenya as a risk factor for HIV/AIDS
  

ASSOCIATE FELLOWSHIPS

• Anne Ikiara (Kenya)
  
  Gender issues in care giving of HIV/AIDS patients in Kambaa Division, Kiambu District of Kenya
  
  
• Amon Kabuili (Malawi)
  
  The impact of gender-related violence and discrimination on the susceptibility of young people to HIV/AIDS in Central Malawi
  
  
• Samwell Mbugua, Sellamaris Mthoka and Elizabeth Kamau-Mbuthia (Kenya)
  
  Effectiveness and utilization of comprehensive care centers by People Living with HIV/AIDS
  
  
• Tirelo Modie-Moroka (Botswana)
  
  Intimate partner violence, substance abuse and HIV transmission risks in Botswana
  
  
• Stella Nyani (Uganda)
  
  Sleeping with my dead husband’s brother! Complex violations within widow-inheritance among contemporary Baganda
  
  
• Mark Tumwine (Uganda)
  
  Burden of voluntarism on women involved in HIV care giving: is voluntarism a sustainable approach to delivery of care in Uganda?