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Number 20, April 2008

HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT FELLOWS

Former Humphrey Fellow Wins Medical Research Council of South Africa Support
Rehana Kader, a 2006-2007 Hubert H. Humphrey Drug Abuse Research Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), has received a scholarship from the Medical Research Council of South Africa (MRC) to complete a Ph.D. while working in the MRC Alcohol and Drug Research Unit. As a doctoral candidate at the University of Stellenbosch, Ms. Kader will investigate the relationship between substance mis(use) and sexual HIV risk behavior among patients attending HIV clinics, developing and evaluating an intervention to improve the way in which substance use or misuse is addressed within HIV and AIDS treatment facilities. Her Humphrey Fellowship mentor, Dr. J. Randy Koch, VCU, is also the cosupervisor for Ms. Kader's doctoral studies. At MRC, Ms. Kader is working on projects to: (1) monitor the prevalence of methamphetamine-related presentations at psychiatric hospitals in Cape Town; (2) improve substance abuse treatment outcomes in South Africa by developing service quality metrics; and (3) develop an HIV Consumer Survey for South Africa.