Sub-Saharan African region news, resources and funding for global health researchers
NIH supports a diverse mix of research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa with significant activities in approximately 20 African countries. About a third of the funding supports groundbreaking research and research training on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, including a substantial effort to study mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Around 20 percent funds research on other infectious diseases, ranging from population-based research on malaria, schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis, to molecular research on vectors and parasites. Chronic disease research makes up about 12 percent of the research portfolio, with the remainder devoted to child development, biodiversity, basic research and other studies.
Countries in Region
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
NIH Funded Research Impacting Sub-Saharan Africa
- Through grant funding to U.S. universities, NIH facilitates international collaboration in Sub-Saharan Africa in all areas of the biomedical and behavioral sciences.
Regional News
- Supplement: Implementation research and the HIV response: Taking stock and charting the way forward
Journal of the International AIDS Society, July 5, 2024 -
Examining barriers to antiretroviral therapy initiation in infants living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa despite the availability of point-of-care diagnostic testing: a narrative systematic review, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Mina C. Hosseinipour and Victor Mwapasam and Fogarty trainees Maggie Nyirenda Nyang'wa, Mitch Matoga, and Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando
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Providing HIV-assisted partner services to partners of partners in western Kenya: an implementation science study, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Carey Farquhar and Fogarty trainees Barbara Wanjiku Mambo, Sarah Masyuko, Beatrice Wamuti, Paul Macharia, and Rose Bosire
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Effectiveness of HIV self-testing when offered within assisted partner services in Western Kenya (APS-HIVST Study): a cluster randomized controlled trial, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Carey Farquhar Carey Farquhar Farquhar and Fogarty trainees Sarah Masyuko, Paul Macharia, and Rose Bosire
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Looking Beyond the Lens of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Africa
Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2024 -
Treatment Outcomes for Tuberculosis Infection and Disease Among Persons Deprived of Liberty, Uganda, 2020
Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2024 -
Persistent Transmission of Circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus — Somalia, January 2017–March 2024
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, June 27, 2024 -
Better heart health through education: Q&A with Gene F. Kwan, MD, MPH
Global Health Matters, May/June 2024
Funding/Training Opportunities
Fogarty Contact
Stacy Wallick, MPH
Regional Program Director, Sub-Saharan Africa
Division of International Relations
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31 Room B2C11
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: 301-496-2091
FAX: 301-480-3414
Email (preferred):
Stacy.Wallick@nih.gov
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Updated July 12, 2024