Science and PBS report on three places where "ending AIDS" is a distant hope

June 29, 2018
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In 2016, Nigeria accounted for 37,000 of the world's 160,000 new cases of babies born with HIV. The most populous country in Africa, Nigeria does have an exceptionally large HIV-infected population of 3.2 million people. In other countries, however, rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV have plummeted, even in far poorer countries. Mother-to-child transmission is only one part of Nigeria’s HIV epidemic.
Nigeria, Muktar Aliyu, HIV/AIDS, Featured

VIGH Hosts Program for Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulation Capacity

June 7, 2018
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This week, VIGH hosted visitors from Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) to attend the VIGH Transdisciplinary Program for Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulation Capacity. The goal of this program was to build capacity of NAFDAC and NACA staff for clinical trial regulation and oversight of clinical trial protocols. NAFDAC, Nigeria's local equivalent of the U.S.
Nigeria, Featured

VIGH researchers receive grant to study family-focused approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission

November 8, 2012
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Researchers at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) recently received a two-year, $895,072 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study whether an integrated, family-focused approach can prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV—the AIDS virus—in Nigeria.
Nigeria, Muktar Aliyu, Carolyn Audet, Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS, Sten Vermund, William Wester
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