David Olufem Olaleye: MEPI Principal Investigator, Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Abstract

The biggest challenge is actually, you know, getting everyone on board. Getting all the stakeholders on board. Getting my colleagues to understand the conceptsthat we tryto put forward. This for me is understandable. I do not see it as a problem and I don’t want to see it as a problem, because these are the proposal concepts that a few of us responded to the RFA based on the initiative, which I every time said at every opportunity that this is a great initiative, coming from the US government through the NIH to empower the African institutions to restructure and enhance the medical education program in the continent. So we responded, and we responded based on our background coming from our involvement in the PEFA program. Some of us have been involved in the HIV programs, responding to the problem of HIV in the country, for well over 25 years. And people came in and they integrated this into a structured training program.