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Partnerships Collaboration, Partnerships and Stakeholders: The RHRU plays a unique role in the South African public health sector by working in close collaboration and through partnership engagement with the government. This is on a national and provincial level, in the field of policy and programme development, research, training, and the implementation of new policies. To date the RHRU has supported government in the rollout of the STI programme, the female condom programme, and is currently in receipt of one of the largest HIV treatment training support grants from the US government to support the Department of Health to rollout ARVs in three provinces. From its inception, RHRU has formed strong strategically linked relationships with international, national and regional organisations and is strongly committed to collaborating with other stakeholders and partners to accelerate HIV and SRH research and programme development. This has resulted in many collaborative research and training programmes linked to international policies and recommendations. Foremost among these partners are the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Population Council, Family Health International (FHI), the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Wellcome Trust, the University of North Carolina, the National Institutes of Health, the UK Medicines Research Council, the Gates Foundation, CONRAD, loveLife and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Its unique role has been further recognised by the World Health Organisation and the Unit was awarded the status of a WHO Collaborating Centre in 2002. As part of strategic development and to increase the impact of research throughout Africa, the unit jointly runs a ‘Research Methods Training Course’ for the African region and has trained more than 200 scientists from more than 20 countries. The RHRU also runs the internationally acclaimed ‘Priorities Conference in Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV’ (now bi-annual), which attracts researchers and programme implementers from all over Africa, and internationally, is a lead partner of the Microbicides Conference in Cape Town, March 2006; and coordinates the WHO’s Regional Reproductive Health Research Task Force.
List of Stakeholders: Funders Atlantic Philanthropies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (through the University of Washington ) Carnegie Foundation Centres for AIDS Research (National Institutes of Health), via University of North Carolina (CFAR) CONRAD Contraceptive Research and Development Division of AIDS (National Institutes of Health)(DAIDS) Department for International Development (DfID) Duke University European Commission Ford Foundation Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) Johnnic Communications London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Mellon Foundation National Department of Health, South Africa National Health Laboratory Services (CDC Surveillance) (NHLS) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Wellcome Trust University of North Carolina
International Collaborators Centre for Training in Reproductive Health Technologies ( France) Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Development Research Africa (DRA) ECafrique Family Health International (FHI) Gynuity Health Project Health and Development Africa (HDA) Institute of Health Care Improvement (IHI) at the University of North Carolina International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Ibis Reproductive Health INSERMV430 ( France) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine National Abortion Federation Mozambique Ministry of Health Population Council Population Services International (PSI) HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) UK Medical Research Council (MRC) University of Washington (Seattle) World Health Organisation (WHO)
National Collaborators Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital City of Johannesburg Clinical HIV Research Unit Department of Microbiology, University of Natal eThekwini Municipality Health Department Health Systems Trust Helen Joseph Hospital Johannesburg Hospital loveLife Maternal, Child and Women's Health and Nutrition Cluster National Bargaining Council National Brands National Department of Health National Department of Social Welfare National Directorate of STI&HIV Prevention National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) Provincial Departments of Health Provincial Department of Maternal, Child and Women's Health, KwaZulu-Natal Provincial STI Directorate, KwaZulu-Natal Road Freight Association Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) Sisonke Sex Worker Project ( Cape Town) University of the Witwatersrand University of Pretoria Women's Health Project Women's Health Research Unit
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