IAVI Report - September / November 2000

Eight sites in Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean will join nine U.S. centers in the new HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), according to an announcement in Durban by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Under the terms of a five-year, renewable grant, the network will receive US$29 million in its first year. Selection of the nine domestic sites, along with central facilities for administration, data management and immunological testing, were announced in late May (see IAVI Report, Jul.-Aug.).

The following is a list of the eight new sites and their principal investigators:

• Brazil
  Mauro Schechter, Hospital Escola, S&atildeo Francisco de Assis

• China
  Jie Chen, Guangxi Health and Anti-Epidemic Center, Guangxi

• Haiti
  Jean (Bill) W. Pape, Cornell-GHESKIO, National Institute for Laboratory Research, Port-au-Prince

• India
  Ramesh Paranjape, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune

• Peru
  Jorge Sanchez, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima

• South Africa
  Salim Abdool Karim, South African Medical Research Council, Durban

• Thailand
  Chirasak Khamboonruang, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University

• Trinidad
  Courtenay Bartholomew, Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad/Tobago, Port of Spain •

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