HIV/AIDS Project Receives Supplemental Funding A
federally funded Georgetown University project to build HIV/AIDS
nursing workforce capacity in Africa has recently received $300,000
in supplemental funding from the President's Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The program, called "Nurses SOAR!," is housed in the Department of Nursing at the School of Nursing & Health Studies. Founded in 2006 with a $1.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, the initiative is providing HIV/AIDS clinical mentoring, leadership development, palliative care training, and loss and grief workshops for nurses. R. Kevin Mallinson, Ph.D., serves as principal investigator on the grant. He works together with Michael Relf, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Nursing, and the project director Amanda Liddle, Dr.P.H. Numerous junior and senior nursing students are engaged in scholarly activities to learn about the complexities of providing HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care services in sub-Saharan Africa. The new funding includes $250,000 for program activities in South Africa and $50,000 toward projects in Lesotho. Nurses SOAR! will expand its activities to nurses in Swaziland over the coming year.
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