{"id":1404,"date":"2023-09-29T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=1404"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:46:20","slug":"partnering-for-an-aids-free-africa","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/partnering-for-an-aids-free-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnering for an Aids-free Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time USAID is investing up to $45m over five years in partnership with South African Medical Research Council, for HIV vaccine research &amp; development. Our 2021 New Voices Fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/community\/?_search_bar=tian%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tian Johnson<\/a> and his organization <a href=\"https:\/\/africanalliance.org.za\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The African Alliance<\/a> is among\u00a0 the civil society organizations that will lead the Community Engagement and Advocacy component this USAID grant to <span class=\"ui-provider ec bis bit biu biv biw bix biy biz bja bjb bjc bjd bje bjf bjg bjh bji bjj bjk bjl bjm bjn bjo bjp bjq bjr bjs bjt bju bjv bjw bjx bjy bjz\" dir=\"ltr\">advance HIV Vaccine discovery in Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This award \u2014 called HIV Vaccine Innovation, Science &amp; Technology Acceleration in Africa (HIV-Vista) is set to expand opportunities for scientists across Sub- Saharan Africa to advance HIV vaccine research and development and will allow for greater leveraging of local resources, creative collaborations and innovative science, which may be the source of a real breakthrough towards a safe and effective HIV vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the impact of this grant and how it enables local scientists and institutions to lead the design and testing of vaccines click below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":992,"template":"","publication_category":[43],"publication_theme":[72,57,79,60,73],"class_list":["post-1404","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-announcements","publication_theme-disease","publication_theme-health","publication_theme-healthcare-access","publication_theme-technology","publication_theme-vaccines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}