Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 4742
Country/Region: Rwanda
Year: 2007
Main Partner: U.S. Department of Defense
Main Partner Program: Naval Health Research Center
Organizational Type: Other USG Agency
Funding Agency: USDOD
Total Funding: $60,000

Funding for Treatment: Adult Treatment (HTXS): $60,000

This activity relates to HTXS (7190), HBHC (7191), HVTB (8146) and HVOP (8135).

In FY 2006, two RDF physicians attended the Military International HIV Training Program in San Diego. The objective of the program is to train key foreign military clinical physicians, using a TOT approach, in state-of-the-art HIV prevention, diagnosis, clinical management and treatment with the expectation that they will transfer information into operational use in country. The program emphasizes treatment of opportunistic infections, provision of anti-retroviral therapy, prevention and clinical management of HIV, epidemiologic surveillance and clinical laboratory diagnosis.

Given the scale-up of USG support to ARV services in the military, an additional four Rwandan physicians will attend this program in FY 2007.

This activity supports the Rwanda EP 5-year strategy to develop human capacity and strengthen the capacity of the RDF to treat the military population, their families, and nearby communities.