Good news: Malawian Doctor wins big in HIV research

Jul 22, 2016 Health 57
Advertisement
Dr McNeil Ngongondo

Malawian Doctor, McNeil Ngongondo has won a grant to conduct Paediatric HIV research.

Ngongondo is among six successful applicants from a list of applicants from 25 countries.
Communication from the International Aids Society (IAS) says the two will be honoured on Wednesday at the Durban international Convention centre in South Africa.

Ngongondo will evaluate the effect of HIV drugs components Tenofovir and Atanazavir in HIV exposed infants.

Dr McNeil Ngongondo
Dr McNeil Ngongondo wins big.

“Research of HIV in paediatric is still falling far short of what is needed to answer critically important questions about how to best care for infants, children and adolescents affected by the epidemic.

“The IAS CIPHER initiative is changing that. We are investing in cutting edge research, cultivating the next generation of paediatric HIV research scientists, helping to change policies in the HIV response and advocating to put infants, children and adolescents affected by HIV high on the global public health agenda,” the IAS Executive Director is quoted is in a press statement.

The grant totalling 1.2miilion dollars is the biggest in the history of CIPHER which runs the programme.

The other winners are from Nigeria, Cameroon, Thailand, South Africa and the United States.

Dozens of scientists have been making their presentations on the progress being made towards finding a cure and vaccine for HIV at the conference.

A large scale HIV vaccine clinical trial is also expected to roll out in November in South Africa with at least five thousand (5000) participants.

This research is driven by the Pox-Protein Public –Public Private Partnership (P5). The P5 aims to produce an HIV vaccine that could have a significant public health benefit in southern Africa and deepen scientist understanding of the immune responses associate with preventing HIV infection.

Malawi is one of the worst hit countries by the HIV/Aids epidemic with at least 12 percent of the population infected according to 2016 Ministry of Health figures.- Mana

Advertisement

57 Comments

  9. hmmmm where did he take materials for such research?if he used zitsamba we can say big up. but if ndi za azunguzi ndiye palibe ntchito apa. vuto mauniversity athu alibe zithu zolozeka kuti anachita introduce aaaaaa. galimoto yoyendera ethanol mpaka pano kuli zii akudikira mzungu awauze. Ife koma nsima ndiye INOO !!!!! mbale mbu

  25. this has nothing to do with politics amwene, just read wise people’s comments here, just congraturating de young doctor from their country, and ur busy talking about politics, can’t u giv ur lyf a break? r u not ashamed of urself? mambala!

  31. all you know is chasing Bushiri wen he’s doing charitable work to feed the poor in their prospectives homes. shame on you DPP cadets

  45. hello I’m Samuel Okizou by name, I’m giving a testimony about Dr.Sule the great Herbalist, he has the cure to all manner of diseases, he cured my HIV disease, though I went through different website I saw different testimonies about different herbalists, I was like: “Many people have the HIV cure why are people still suffering from it?” I thought of it, then I contact Dr.Sule via email, I didn’t believe him that much, I just wanted to give him a try, he replied my mail and Needed some Information about me, then I sent them to him, he prepared the CURE and sent it to me via UPS courier service, they told me that it will take 3-4 days before I’ll get the parcel, 3 days later I received the package and I started taking the medicine as prescribed by him, after 7 days of taking the medicine I went for check-up, I was tested HIV NEGATIVE… IF YOU ARE SERIOUS YOU WILL BE CURED!!! contact Dr Sule on whats-app +2348162447651

Comments are closed.