I have recently joined an Indian University as a Professor in the Institute of Biotechnology. I want to establish a research laboratory with a focus on HIV research. My interest is to delineate the role of different of HIV prevelant in India to evaluate their pathogenesis and means to circumvent clades' deleterious effect with a special emphasis on aging population in a developing nations like India.

Nowadays due to improvements in  health care services the longevity is increasing with time in India too. These issues will ceratinly beacome a  burden with time in a population infected  with HIV, in my opinion these issues realted with health care and human health need would have some deterimental effects. These issues need to be addressed by employing some applied research at various aspect realted with the problems of HIV inefction and its consequences.

I am looking for some intial funding to establish some basic infrastructure to work with inefctious HIV at my insitution.
I will look forward to hear from you for if their any possible hope of funding in this kind of venture.

Thank you.

Answer: Funding for science and clinical research towards HIV research

Thank you for your inquiry and your interest in working with the Global Fund.

In answer to your question, The Global Fund would not provide funding for science and clinical research towards HIV research.  In order to understand better the types of interventions that Global Fund would potentially fund, please read Annex 3 “What the Global Fund will support” of our Round 8 Guidelines for Proposals. This document can be found on our website at the following address: http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/rounds/8/GuidelinesR8_single_en.pdf

For information on other possible donors for your organization, the following websites may be helpful*:

National Institute of Health (U.S): http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/research/topics/HIV/vaccines/funding/

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) http://www.avac.org/

Alliance for Microbicide Development (AMD) http://www.microbicide.org/

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) http://www.iavi.org/

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) http://www.unaids.org/
 

Please also note that the Proposals Hotline is available through the Round 8 Call for Proposals Forum at http://myglobalfund.org/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=60.   Everyone can read questions and answers that have already been posted, but registration is necessary to post a new question: http://myglobalfund.org/user/CreateUser.aspx?ReturnUrl.  
 
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* Please note that these websites are meant for helpful purposes only, and in no way are they, nor their content endorsed by the Global Fund.