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[PROJECT] AVECNET - African Vector Control: New Tools
ID: 265660
Start date: 2011-02-01, End date: 2016-12-31
The AvecNet consortium will develop practical solutions to the current limitations of vector control strategies in Africa using a combination of translationally-aware, state of the art science and end user analysis to ensure successful development and uptake of the new and im...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 98328
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
[PROJECT] IDEA - Dissecting the Immunological Interplay between Poverty Related Diseases and Helminth Infections: An African-European Research Initiative
ID: 241642
Start date: 2010-03-01, End date: 2015-08-31
Worm infections are receiving increased attention due to: the wide geographic overlap in occurrence between worms and HIV, TB and malaria; the large proportion of individuals (minimal estimates around 25%) co-infected with worms and HIV/TB/ malaria; the potential risk of incr...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 94020
Last updated on: 2017-05-25
ID: 265448
Start date: 2011-02-01, End date: 2016-01-31
Improving maternal and newborn health requires innovative approaches that maximise opportunities for impact throughout the continuum of care. In the past decade, maternal health services have largely focused on the management of intrapartum complications and on rationalising ...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97705
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
Through exploratory and pilot studies in three sub-Saharan countries, this project's main objective was to examine the effectiveness of using a consistent and complementary system of home-based care, improved personal hygiene and environmental sanitation, and strengthened heal...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 51983
Last updated on: 2011-04-14
[PROJECT] THESCHISTOVAC - The targeted development of a new generation Vaccine for Schistosomiasis
ID: 242107
Start date: 2010-02-01, End date: 2014-07-31
The aim of this project is to develop a new generation vaccine for schistosomiasis. The vaccine will be based on exposed proteins and/or glycans of the vulnerable skin stage schistosomula, making it safe and effective. The life stage-specific vaccine target selection strategy...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 94065
Last updated on: 2017-05-25
ID: 243964
Start date: 2010-02-01, End date: 2013-07-31
One of the most dramatic and immediate impacts of climate variation is that on disease, especially the vector-borne diseases that disproportionally affect the poorest people in Africa. Although we can clearly see that, for example, an El Nino event triggers Rift Valley Fever ...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 93952
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] ARHNE - The Adolescent Reproductive Health Network: Health system and Health Promotion Research in Eastern and Southern Africa
ID: IC18970232
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 2001-03-21
The following specific objectives have been identified:
* To provide a setting for exchange of expertise and collaboration between participating research groups through annual meetings & workshops.
* To provide information regarding appropriate graduate and post-graduate r...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 40182
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
[PROJECT] Mathematical models of the immunological and clinical epidemiology of plasmodium falciparum malaria
ID: IC18970242
Start date: 1997-09-01, End date: 2000-11-30
* Construct mathematical models of the immunological and clinical epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum (P.f.) malaria, and test the model predictions against observations collected independently of this project.
* Use the models for helping to:
a) calculate the expected impa...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 40184
Last updated on: 2002-04-22
[PROJECT] Multicenter study on factors determining differential spread of hiv infection in African towns
ID: IC18960114
Start date: 1996-12-01, End date: 1999-07-31
* To improve our understanding of the factors that determine the extent of the spread of HIV infection in populations in sub-Saharan Africa where the predominant mode of transmission is heterosexual contact. in view of better targeted interventions to reduce new HIV infections...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 34476
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970257
Start date: 1998-01-01, End date: 2001-08-31
* To assess and analyse the effect of different levels of transmission on the age profiles of infection, disease and host immune response in bancroftian filariasis, and to analyse the interrelationship between these.
* To assess and analyse the heterogeneity of infection, dis...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 40191
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
