You can learn more about our current and past projects, research themes, approaches and methods. Is a trial to test the success of community mobilisation for sustainable dengue prevention in Nicaragua and Mexico. Supports Aboriginal health researchers in Canada with fellowships and seed grants. Tests the impact of interventions focusing on the choice disabled, aiming to reduce gender violence and HIV.

Building Global Public Health Research Capacity. Works with local partners to better meet the public health needs of their own communities. SSI has collaborations in 27 countries in Africa and Latin America. Active programs are coordinated out of our.

Service providers singing about HIV during a community meeting. Members of two BVV educational groups with their certificates. A group of young women working at their polish making enterprise. HIV prevention in Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland.

A CIET fieldworker shares survey results with a service provider in Botswana. Young women engage in a activity during a focused workshop. A discussion group listens to a Beyond Victims and Villains episode. Inter-ministerial National Structural Interventions Trial. Is an HIV prevention initiative in Botswana that tests the impact of a combined package of structural and behavioural interventions focused on young women and the choice disabled.

Our pilot study took place from 2007 to 2012 in Guerrero state, Mexico. Indigenous fieldworkers interviewed people for the 2008 baseline and the 2012 follow-up. We built tradtional birth centres as part of the intervention. At birth centres, traditional midwives attend to pregnant women and train new midwives. We trained indigenous community health promoters to support traditional midwives. The study showed that women can safely give birth without giving up their traditions. Safe Birth in Cultural Safety.