| Adedayo
Adeyemi
(Nigeria) |
Adherence
to Antiretroviral Therapy and its Principal Determinants in
HIV-Infected Adults
Dr Adeyemi’s HIV Research Trust
Scholarship provided him with training in research methods necessary
for a study of obstacles to voluntary counselling and HIV testing
of women attending an ante-natal clinic in Johannesburg. Such
testing and counselling facilitates prevention of mother to
child transmission of HIV. By understanding the societal and
other obstacles to testing the proportion of women accepting
the service might be increased. |
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| Siaka
Alhassan (Nigeria) |
Impact
of Comunity based Voluntary Counseling and Testing on acces
to Anti Retroviral Therapy
Received training in operational research in Uganda,
including the design and implementation of data collection instruments.
This has helped him his current post where he is responsible
for data collection, programme planning and implementation in
Nigeria. |
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| Claire
K. Ebegbare
(Nigeria) |
Quantitative
and Qualitative Research Methods Training
Claire is a social worker on a programme
for orphans and vulnerable children.
Her
HIV Research Trust Scholarship provided her with the opportunity
to receive training in qualitative and quantitative research
methods at the Association for reproductive Health Ibadan, Nigeria. |
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| Resign
Gunda (Zimbabwe) |
HIV
Research Training and HIV Diagnosis using CD4 cell count, DNA
PCR, RNA PCR and ELISPOT
Resign Gunda, of the National
Institute of Health research Zimbabwe, received training in
modern HIV diagnostic methods at Botswana-Harvard HIV reference
laboratory. |
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| Catherine
MacPhail
(South Africa) |
Prevention
Intervention for HIV-infected adolescents
Dr Catherine McPhail of the Reproductive
Health and HIV Research Unit Witwatersrand S.A. visited researchers
in Los Angeles (California), Atlanta (Georgia) and Chapel Hill
(North Carolina) to learn about programmes of prevention in
HIV infected individuals. |
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| Alan
Matthews
(South Africa) |
Development
of an HIV-AIDS Epidemic Microsimulation Model applied to Southern
Africa; Testing the Healthy Carrier Hypothesis
Dr Matthews’ research concerns computer
simulation of the HIV epidemic in Southern Africa, using data
from Zambia, seeking to explain why prevalence is much higher
in women than in men; to model the age-pattern over time; and
to test the hypothesis that men might act as “healthy
carriers”. His HIV Research Trust Scholarship allowed
him to develop the programmes at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. |
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| Ramona
Moodley
(South Africa) |
Acquisiton
and Immune response of Pneumocystis jirocevii pneumonia in South
African infants
Ramona
Moodley of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine Durban SA visited
a reference laboratory in Cincinatti to learn the methods of
laboratory diagnosis of Pneumocystis infection which is very
common in HIV infected children in South Africa. |
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| Thuli
Carol Penelope Mthiyane
(South Africa) |
| Reconstitution
of TB antigen specific IFN-y responses in TB-HIV coinfected
subjects |
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| Johnson
Mushonga
(Zimbabwe) |
Data
Management within a Clinical Trials Setup
Johnson
Mushonga went to PHRU in South Africa to develop expertise in
data management processes to assist in the development of clinical
trials. |
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| Innocent
C. J. Omalu
(Nigeria) |
Studies
on HIV/AIDS drugs resistance
He
received training in measurement of viral load and plasma concentrations
of drugs at the Africa Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology
Harare Zimbabwe. This will help him in his current post as part
of the AIDS Prevention in Nigeria (APIN) at Jos University Teaching
Hospital (JUTH). where research involves drug monitoring and
surveillance and detecting resistance. |
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| Bashir
Oyeyemi (Nigeria) |
Peculiarities
of providing care for children with HIV/AIDS
Bashir Oyeyemi of the Federal Medical
Centre, Katsina, Niger, visited the the Aids Prevention Initiative
in Nigeria (APIN) Laboratory at the Jos University Teaching
Hospital, Jos, Nigeria to learn best practice in the provision
of care for children with HIV/AIDS and those at risk of infection.
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| Rutendo
Zinyama
(Zimbabwe) |
Expression
of genetic markers associated with susceptibility to HIV infection
: impact of co-infection with schistosomiasis
Rutendo
B.L Zinyama from Zimbabwe traveled to Rigshospital Denmark,
to carry out ELISA assays and Mannose Binding Lectin PCR genotyping
on 379 blood samples from Zimbabwe. The aim was to determine
whether there was a link between genotype and susceptibility
to HIV infection. |
