TANZANIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH, MBEYA:
- Frederick Minja, MD, Regional TB & Leprosy Coordinator
- Donan Mmbando, MD, Regional Medical Officer
- Eleuter Samky, MD, Director General, Mbeya Referral Hospital
- Julius Sewangi, MD, Regional AIDS Control Coordinator
DEP. OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES & TROPICAL MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH:
- Marion Goeldner, Logistic manager
- Michael Hoelscher, MD, Principal Scientist
- Elmar Saathoff, MD, PhD, Epidemiologist
- Thomas Loescher, MD, Director
- Frank von Sonnenburg, MD, Head Sec. Int. Med.
US MILITARY HIV RESEARCH PROGRAM:
- Deborah L. Birx, MD, Director
- Josephine Cox, PhD, Principal Investigator Immunology
- Janice Darden, MSc, Flow Cytometry Specialist
- Francine McCutchan, PhD, Scien. Director, Global Mol. Epi. Progr.
- Vicky Polonis, PhD, Principal Scientist Immunology
- Philip Renzullo, PhD, Senior Scientist Epidemiology
- Merlin Robb, MD, Director HJF HIV Program
- Warren Sateren, MPH, Epidemiologist
LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE:
- Heiner Grosskurth, MD, PhD, Reader in Epidemiology & Intern. Health
- Richard Hayes, MSc, DSc, Prof. Epidemiology & Intern. Health
- Gabriele Riedner, MD, Clinical Lecturer
- Jim Todd, MSc, Lecturer Med. Statistics & Tropical Epidemiology
- Basia Zaba, MSc, Senior lecturer in Demography
- Brent Wolff, PhD, honorary lecturer in demography
- Philippe Mayaud, MD, MSc, DMTH, Reader in Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN:
- Carolyn Williamson, PhD, Associate Professor
- Abraham Lucky Malaza, MSc, Research Assistant
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, JOHANNESBURG:
- Clive Gray, PhD, Chief Specialist Scientist
- Greg Khoury, Operations Manager Immunology Lab
- Vivian Morafo, PhD, Immunologist
MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES, DAR-ES-SALAAM
- Doreen Mloka, MSC, Micro. Bio., PhD.
- Eligius Lyamuya, MD, Professor of Microbiology
- Fred Mhalu, MD, Professor of Microbiology
- Mohammed Bakari, MD, PhD
NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE, DEP. OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY, HELSINKI
- Mika Salminen, PhD, Director HIV laboratory
GERMAN TECHNICAL COOPERATION , GTZ COMPREHENSIVE MULTISECTORAL AIDS CONTROL
- Brigitte Jordan, MD, Team Leader
Collaborating Scientfic International Institutions
- KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Scensive Technologies Ltd., Normanton, United Kingdom.
- Department of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) / World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- Spaxen Italia Ssrl, Rome, Italy (coordinating partner).
- University College London (UCL), London, UK.
- University of Zambia (UNZA), Lusaka, Zambia.
- Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive L. Spallanzani (INMI), Rome, Italy.
FUNDING AGENCIES:
- Chemogen, Portland, ME
- DIFID, Department for International Development, UK
- European Commission
- Friedrich-Baur-Foundation, Munich
- German Ministry of Science & Technology
- The Wellcome Trust, UK
- US Military HIV Research Program
For more information contact:
Dr. Michael Hoelscher,
Department of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine, Leopoldstrasse 5, 80802 München,
Tel: +49-89-2180 17601 , Fax: +49-89-336038