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Table 1 Funded research projects

From: Strengthening research capacity through the medical education partnership initiative: the Mozambique experience

Funded projects

Funding source and amount (US$)

Immunogenetic variation in schistosomiasis and HIV co-infection

UCSD CFAR ($40,000)

Etiology of bloodstream infections at MCH

UCSD CFAR ($40,000)

Multiplex diagnostic system for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and quantification of CD4+ cells

mBio diagnostics ($20,000)

Interactions between HIV-1 and Cysticercus cellulose in Beira, Mozambique

UCSD CFAR ($40,000)

Etiologic role of human papillomavirus in conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in Mozambique

UCSD CFAR/CC NCI ($51,523)

Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with HIV and HBV co-infection in Mozambique

UCSD CFAR/CC NCI ($51,411)

Pooled nucleic acid testing to identify virologic failure during antiretroviral therapy

NIH ($378,189)

Study of genetic diversity and primary resistance to lamivudine for hepatitis B virus in individuals coinfected with HIV in the area of health Mavalane

UL/INS ($22,750)

Study of the frequency of occult hepatitis B in HIV co infection in the area of Health Mavalane

UL/INS ($22,750)

Prevalence and incidence of latent tuberculosis among workers in the MCH - Health and usefulness of Interferon-gamma release assays to detect latent tuberculosis infection

UCSD CFAR ($40,000)

Cardiovascular risk and disease in HIV-infected patients in Mozambique

UCSD CFAR ($40,000)

Characterization of Salmonella spp in patients admitted to the department of medicine

UCSD CFAR ($40,000)

Frequency of cryptococal antigenemia in HIV positive patients without antiretroviral treatment

RU-DoM-MCH ($2,500)

Other projects to which funding has been committed

 

Creation of a joint institutional ethics committee of Faculty of Medicine of the UEM and MCH

EDCTP ($58,500)

Cure club foot project

Cure international ($123,666)

  1. EDCTP, European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership; INS, Instituto Nacional de Saude; NCI, NIH National Institute of Cancer NIH, United States National Institute of Health; RU-DoM-MCH, Research unit of the Department of Medicine, Maputo Central Hospital; UCSD CFAR, University of California San Diego Center for AIDS Research; UEM, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane; UL, University of Lisbon.