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DR. LINDA WINKLER RECEIVES GRANT TO BEGIN AIDS EDUCATION PROJECT IN AFRICA THIS SUMMER
TITUSVILLE, May 20 -- Dr. Linda Winkler, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville and a resident of Oil City, has been awarded a Research Abroad Program grant to begin an AIDS education project in northwestern Tanzania. Part of the grant provides travel money to Winkler, two undergraduates from the University of Pittsburgh and one from the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville who are part of the project. Dr. Winkler and the students will travel to Tanzania in June to work collaboratively with the Nyakahanga Hospital staff and other Tanzanians who are doing AIDS control work and counseling (WAMATO). WAMATO (a Swahili-language acronym for “people in the fight against AIDS”) is a grass roots organization offering support and education to HIV/AIDS victims in a remote northwestern area of Tanzania. Theresa Kaijage, a Tanzanian social worker and international AIDS advocate who was recently honored by the United Nations for her work, started the organization in 1989. She is presently in residence at the University of Pittsburgh pursuing additional graduate work, was in the Pitt Magazine, and will serve as a consultant for this project. Since January, Dr. Winkler and the students have been researching socio-cultural elements of AIDS, as well as AIDS education projects in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. The group will spend the month of June in Tanzania conducting the on-site portion of their research. They will use their findings to help local AIDS workers develop AIDS education materials for use in the community. # # #
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