Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Details for Mechanism ID: 12091
Country/Region: Ukraine
Year: 2013
Main Partner: National Institutes of Health
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/NIH
Total Funding: $100,000

In 2010, CDC-Ukraine began to fund a NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC) mechanism to support training on technical capacity in HIV/AIDS disciplines. FIC has funded 23 AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) Centers, including several working in the former Soviet Union. The goal of AITRPs is to train epidemiologists, laboratory specialists, clinicians, basic scientists, NGO program staff, and other professionals in disciplines needed to support HIV control programs and operational research. Typical AITRP components include short-term or degree training in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Policy & Management; postdoctoral U.S. laboratory-based training; short-term in-country infectious disease (AIDS/HIV, TB, and others) workshops; blood banking/transfusion medicine; and training in research on socio-behavioral aspects of substance-use/HIV/AIDS risk.This training builds skill sets important to the sustainability of a national response to HIV. In Ukraine, Fogarty activities include support of needs identified during initial assessments of the Ukrainian AIDS Center and stakeholder meetings.Trainings included basic epidemiology and data analysis for NGO and GOU implementers of MARP studies; upcoming are manuscript writing and effectiveness evaluation workshops. With the State Service on HIV, Fogarty will help develop a national plan for operational research needs. A monitoring and evaluation plan will be developed to capture information on trainees, what they have been trained on, and how their skills have improved. Fogarty contributes to goals 2 and 3 of Ukraine's Partnership Framework including improved quality and cost effectiveness of HIV services for MARPs and strengthened national/local ability to achieve Ukraine's AIDS Program objectives.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $100,000

Fogarty supports activities designed to strengthen health systems (OHSS) and human resources for health (HRH). FY12 funds will be used to support two in-country workshops trainings, two year-long (two semester) fellowships in US Universities, and in-country consultancies to help develop an operational research needs agenda. The workshops will focus on specific research topics developed in conjunction with major stakeholders including the State Service on HIV, and the three Global Fund Principal Recipients (Ukrainian AIDS Center, International Alliance on HIV/AIDS in Ukraine, All Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. Fellowships will include academic coursework in the field of Epidemiology as well as extracurricular practical training opportunities.

The target population for these activities is current and prospective public health professionals primarily from GOU institutions working in the field of HIV, M&E specialists from NGOs and public health academic institutions.

In-country activities will involve faculty and experts from US universities. Fogarty will become more cost efficient over time through the leveraging of educational resources within Ukraine, particularly the School of Public Health at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $100,000
Human Resources for Health $100,000