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[PROJECT] E PIAF - Enhanced Protective Immunity Against Filariasis
ID: 242131
Start date: 2010-03-01, End date: 2014-08-31
Filarial infections remain a major public health problem in West and Central Africa. Three filarial species are involved: Onchocerca volvulus (onchocerciasis or river blindness); Wuchereria bancrofti (lymphatic filariasis); and Loa loa (the eye worm). Treatment of onchocercia...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 94066
Last updated on: 2017-05-25
[PROJECT] AFRICA BUILD - AFRICA BUILD (Building a Research and Education Infrastructure for Africa)
ID: 266474
Start date: 2011-08-01, End date: 2014-07-31
Topic: AFRICA BUILD aims to improve capacity for health research and education in Africa, through Information Technologies (IT). It will provide innovative learning and research opportunities. Background: The EU has supported many IT and health initiatives, with significant r...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 99621
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
ID: IC18970251
Start date: 1998-07-01, End date: 2000-12-31
The general objective is to deploy an African network for research and analysis of human reproduction and maternal health in six West African countries.
The specific objectives are to:
* Assess the magnitude of abortion complications in several maternities of the following s...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 44873
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970246
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 1999-03-31
* To provide a surveillance system for newly emerging and naturally occurring recombinant HIV-1 strains in Cameroon and Gabon.
* To classify sera from HIV infected individuals according to their capacity to neutralise primary isolates representing different genetic clades.
* T...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 38175
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970220
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 2000-09-30
* to develop novel compounds active against human trypanosomiases and leishmaniasis;
* to take advantage of an essential metabolism in these trypanosomatidae that glycolysis represents;
* to design irreversible and quasi-irreversible inhibitors of glycolytic enzymes based on...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 38251
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970216
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 2000-09-30
General objective
To analyse the impact of specific genetic subtypes on the natural history of HIV-1 infection.
Specific objective
* To identify the genetic subtype circulating in three existing cohorts of HIV infected patients in Senegal, Cameroon and Guinea-Bissau; to stu...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 38164
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: BMH4961509
Start date: 1996-09-01, End date: 1999-08-31
To investigate various mechanisms involved in transplacental route, as well as the intracellular and extracellular mechanisms regulating HIV-1 vertical transmission, in an effort to explain why the transmission rate is only partial, and the reasons for such a variation between...
Programme: FP4-BIOMED 2
Record Number: 36040
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18950026
Start date: 1996-01-01, End date: 1997-06-30
* To determine the mechanisms of protection induced by irradiated infective larvae of Loa loa in monkey and of Litomosoides sigmodontis in laboratory mice.
* To identify the mechanisms of natural protection against microfilariae of
L. sigmodontis in laboratory mice and cotton...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 31190
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18960056
Start date: 1996-10-01, End date: 2000-07-31
The main objective of the project is the development of new antimalarial drugs that interact with the malarial parasite phospholipid metabolism and could provide a solution to P. falciparum polychemoresistant malaria.
Although there is no indication of potential resistance to...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 37549
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18960110
Start date: 1996-11-01, End date: 1998-04-30
* To provide a surveillance system for newly emerging and naturally occurring recombinant HIV-1 strains in Cameroon and Gabon.
* To classify sera from HIV infected individuals according to their capacity to neutralize primary isolates representing different genetic clades.
* T...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 34232
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
