GRANTS FOR RESEARCH AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS (GRASP) INTERNATIONAL AWARD 

 Babcock University (Nigeria) and Loma Linda University (USA) team of researchers jointly applied and won the Loma Linda University GRASP International Award for 2022. The grant award which is 75 thousand of Dollar will be used to carry out a study on “Optimizing access to HIV self-testing based on preferences of key populations in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment”. The study will investigate the acceptability of HIV self-testing among Nigerian key populations and will assess how these at-risk groups value various attributes of hypothetical HIV self-testing service delivery models. The Principal Investigator for the project at BU is Dr. Olumide Abiodun, MBChB, MPH, FWACP, faculty member in the Department of Community Medicine, Babcock University and the Co-Principal Investigator at LLUH is Oleksandr Dubov, PhD, Associate Professor at Loma Linda School of Behavioral Health  Dr Olumide Abiodun  Dr Oleksandr