Dr. Lynda Wilson partnered with the Sparkman Center for Global Health and other Zambian partners to receive funding commitments from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) office in Zambia and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation for SON faculty to help create what is the very first HIV nurse practitioner program in Zambia. Through this program, Zambian nurses take training leading to a certification, enabling them to provide comprehensive care for patients with HIV, including the prescribing of antiretroviral drugs to combat HIV. Through a collaboration with the Zambian Nursing Council, the Ministry of Health, CIDRZ, the University of Maryland School of Nursing, the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, and many other Zambian partners, this new program was established in 2009- 10. Thirty Zambian nurses, representing nine provinces, became that program’s first graduating class in June 2010. Another class of thirty nurses began the program in July 2010.