Money contributed from the success of the congress has had the potential to make a truly significant impact amongst a far wider need internationally already having enabled some 165 individuals to pursue a significant lifetime training objective.

The HIV Research Trust was founded in 2002. It provides funding in resource-limited settings for early- to mid-career researchers working in all fields of HIV prevention, infection and treatment. A scholarship enables the candidate to travel to another research unit (host institution) to acquire new skills and techniques which will develop the candidate’s career and strengthen capacity in the department in which they are based (home institution).
 
Examples of skills and techniques include: clinical management; clinical trial experience and practice; data and trial management; statistical expertise; acquisition of laboratory techniques and analyses; cell and molecular biology.
 
Scholarships can be used to pay for tuition fees, laboratory costs, materials (consumables and shipping), international travel, accommodation and subsistence. Scholarships are awarded annually, following a peer-review process led by HIV Research Trust trustees.
 
Visit the HIV Research Trust website for more information and to join the mailing list to be notified of scholarship opportunities.