Strengthening Aboriginal Community Based HIV Research Capacity
Under the Aboriginal Capacity-Building Program for Aboriginal Community-Based Research (CBR), CAAN has been playing host to two projects;

3. National Aboriginal HIV/AIDS CBR capacity building initiative. The goal is to develop culturally-appropriate and methodologically-sound research, analysis and dissemination strategies that are beneficial and empowering for participating communities and other stakeholders in their preparation and implementation of an effective response to HIV/AIDS.

• CAAN has compiled and published its first CBR environmental scan to explore the research capacity building needs of Aboriginal HIV/AIDS service organisations. The complete report in English or French is available for downloading at any of the following three web sites. (www.linkup-connexion.ca, www.cbr-hiv.net, www.caan.ca This report has resulted to amongst other things, to the possibility of the formulation of a research topic around addressing cultural awareness and sensitivity when addressing HIV in Aboriginal communities. Keep an eye on this page for more information.2. Summer Awards Training has as goal to address the need for pro-active strategies to recruit, mentor and retain qualified individuals devoted to HIV/AIDS community-based research.

• In its third and final year, six students, six academic advisors and six host organisations got together and conducted related community-based HIV research. The complete results of the students’ are available at the following web-sites; www.cbr-hiv.net and shortly at www.caan.ca . This project comes to an end at CAAN on March 31st 2004 and will continue to be administered by the newly created Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) as of April 1st 2004. The complete Summer Training Awards project report will be soon be available on-line, so keep checking.

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