RESEARCHERS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH

Researchers for Global Health (R4GH) was launched in 2015 to consolidate a young but growing partnership. During the years preceding the founding of R4GH, a highly motivated team of researchers had paved the way for a successful medical research collaboration between the University of Zurich (UZH) in Switzerland and the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda... As the partnership grew from a single research project into a multifaceted research, education, and clinical care platform, a second study, focusing on the emerging challenge of HIV drug resistance was launched in 2015. HIV resistance patterns from 2700 HIV-infected individuals from the adult clinic at IDI will be compared to the HIV resistance patterns found in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS). This project exemplifies the transnational approach of R4GH which strives to find solutions to global health challenges by making best use of all available resources - human, intellectual,..

Primary location: Berne Switzerland