Tiphunzitsane Project: Pathways Linking Poverty, Food Insecurity, and HIV in Rural Malawi
In April of 2008, The Medical College of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and CARE USA received a five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the relationship between HIV vulnerability and changes in economic environment and food security in rural Malawi, a country in sub-Saharan Africa with a high prevalence of HIV infection, poverty, and child malnutrition.
This project is a partnership between the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for AIDS Intervention Research, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing, Center for Global Health Equity, CARE USA and CARE Malawi. CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian and economic development organizations that currently operates in 70 countries with a mission of eradicating poverty and addressing health, education, food security and economic development globally. Other internationally recognized academic institutions have faculty who are consultants for this study, including the University of Pennsylvania , The London School of Economics and The University of Malawi.
The project name, Tiphunzitsane, means "learning together" in Chichewa which is one of the local language in Malawi. The project name was selected in consultation with field staff and researchers to reflect the concept of researchers "learning from the community" and "communities learning from researchers."
