ViiV Healthcare Scholarships - HIV Research Trust

Join our email list

Pauline Byakika-Kibwika, winner of the HIVRT alumni scholarship to attend the HIV Drug Therapy Congress, Glasgow, 2018.

HIV Research Trust alumni were asked to complete a survey describing how their HIVRT scholarship had impacted their professional and academic lives allowing Trustees to better understand how it affected patient outcomes in the scholar’s home setting. The Trustees assessed all survey responses and selected Pauline to receive the above award. Her story is summarised below.

In 2010 Pauline attended a placement at Mahidol University, Thailand to obtain clinical pharmacology analytical skills to assist her in completing her PhD. Pauline’s PhD work contributed to the current knowledge on treatment of malaria in HIV-infected patients who are also receiving antiretroviral treatment. This work has been utilised and referenced by the World Health Organization in the current policy on treatment of malaria in HIV-infected individuals.

After completion of her PhD, she was promoted to Associate Professor and currently heads the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Department of Medicine of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda where they care for those who are affected with HIV and opportunistic infections - more than 200 HIV-infected inpatients and over 300 outpatients are seen each month.

Pauline is also the Director of the Research Directorate at Makerere where her responsibilities include reviewing and guiding the research framework at the Department of Medicine and supervising Masters and PhD students’ research projects.

ViiV Healthcare Scholarships

The mission of the HIV Research Trust is to build capacity in HIV in low and lower-middle income countries by promoting study into the prevention and treatment of HIV infection to further the knowledge of early to mid-career healthcare professionals working in resource limited settings. The long-term objective is to improve outcomes for patients and people living with HIV in these regions.

ViiV Healthcare is dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Their medical education vision is to improve patient care for those living with HIV through furthering the knowledge, competence and performance of healthcare providers in the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients.

In alignment with the above, the HIV Research Trust is delighted to have been awarded a 3 year grant from ViiV Healthcare to support the HIV Research Trust annual scholarship programme from 2017 through to 2019. The grant will support a number of individual scholars annually.

TIMELINE FOR 2021 SCHOLARSHIPS

11th Jan 2021: Applications Open
7th March 2021: Applications Close
April 2021: Scholarships announced

JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in applying for a scholarship find out more below:

HOW TO APPLY

AM I ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?

The scholarships are for health care professionals in early/mid-career who are located in resource-limited settings from low-income and lower-middle-income countries working in the field of HIV infection. Read more to see if you are eligible.