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Group leader:
Prof. Dr. Olaf Müller
Members:
Claudia Beiersmann
Dr. Manuela De Allegri*
Dr. Sabine Gabrysch*
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Jahn*
Dr. Valérie Louis*
Robin Nesbitt*
Dr. Florian Neuhann*
Martin Nyaaba Adokiya
Nobila Ouedraogo
Prof. Dr. Andreas Ruppel
Prof. Dr. Malabika Sarker
Dr. Aurélia Souares*
Dr. Yesim Tozan
Prof. Dr. Annelies Wilder-Smith*
*Associated members
HIV research
Our HIV research group addresses quality of
care related to antiretroviral treatment (ART)
provision for adult and pregnant women
and ART adherence and retention in care.
Since 2002 and until 2011 DFG has funded
a research project on different operatio-
nal facets of a routine PMTCT (preventing
mother-to-child transmission) program in
Nouna, Burkina Faso (principal investigator
(PI) Hans-Georg Kräusslich; co-investigators
Malabika Sarker and Olaf Müller). The
multi-country European Union (EU) project
"Effect of antiretrovirals for HIV on African
health systems, maternal and child health"
ARVMAC focussed on the quality of ART
and PMTCT service provision in Uganda,
Tanzania and Burkina Faso (HIPH principal
Investigator Malabika Sarker, co-investiga-
tors Florian Neuhann and Olaf Müller). Since
2006, ARVMAC engaged in conducting
research on cross-country comparison using
three demographic surveillance systems
(DSS). The project ended in 2011. Additional
research is ongoing in the areas of retention
in care, treatment interruption, and emer-
ging resistance to ART in Malawi, funded by
the Hector Foundation (PI Florian Neuhann).
www.arvmac.eu
Malaria research
Most of the malaria research projects were
carried out in the research zone of the Cen-
tre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN)
in Burkina Faso. Malaria is holoendemic but
highly seasonal in this area.
Research activities started in 1999 with a
WHO-supported randomised controlled trial
(RCT) on the effects of zinc supplementation
in malaria control (PI Olaf Müller), followed
Disease Control in
Disadvantaged
Populations
This multidisciplinary working group
consists of specialists working in different
areas relevant to disease control in low- and
middle-income countries (e.g. parasitology,
epidemiology, paediatrics, reproductive
health, anthropology, health economics,
disease surveillance).
All group members work on projects in
partnership with colleagues from a number
of countries mainly situated in the south
(e.g. Burkina Faso, Uganda, Tanzania,
Malawi, China, Bangladesh).
The aim of the group is to collaborate on
relevant projects to improve health through
applied disease control measures in disad-
vantaged populations of respective partner
countries. Currently, the main topics of the
working group are HIV/AIDS, malaria, den-
gue and maternal and child health.