
A Community With a Fierce Commitment to Ending HIV: The UNC CFAR Turns 25 in December
This article has been reposted from UNC’s Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease website. To see the full article, please click here. 1) What is CFAR? Swanstrom: “UNC CFAR is one of 19 NIH Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) programs across the US that promote high quality AIDS research projects, providing administrative and shared support. It enhances and coordinates expertise, resources, and services, not otherwise readily obtained through more traditional funding mechanisms. “Comprising UNC, the RTI and FHI 360, the consortium significantly adds to the breadth of HIV research. RTI is focused on both contract and grant-funded research, largely domestic but expanding into international work. FHI 360 has almost an exclusively international contract and research portfolio, along with an international service mission largely supported by USAID and charitable foundations. The complementary strengths of these institutions–combined with UNC’s strengths as a major research university with five health affairs schools: Medicine, Public Health,