SAHARA is an alliance of partners who seek to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent the further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation in Africa.

SAHARA is a vehicle for facilitating the sharing of research expertise, sharing knowledge, conducting multi-site multi-country research projects that are intervention-based with the explicit aim of generating new social science evidence for prevention, care and impact mitigation of the HIV epidemic.

We have brought key partners in the region, including policy makers, programme planners, researchers, NGOs, community groups, donors and multilateral agencies together to participate in a flexible alliance for social aspects of AIDS research.