Strengthening InterProfessional Education for HIV (STRIPE HIV) is a PEPFAR funded project to capacitate medical and nursing schools to deliver optimal HIV care. A key facet of this involves next generation of health leaders to be better equipped to engage in health diplomacy in their settings. STRIPE works to maximize the impact of HRSA’s investment in, and PEPFAR’s continued commitment to, building health workforce capacity across Africa to achieve HIV epidemic control.  As such STRIPE’s focus will strengthening interprofessional HIV training provided by MEPI and NEPI institutions and their partner facilities to ensure that the next generation of health care professionals is equipped to deliver the highest quality, collaborative, evidence-informed HIV care.