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  VIETNAM - FA4: Capacity strengthening and enhanced tools for evidence-based health research and control/ elimination strategies of parasitic diseases in Vietnam.

  Rosanas-Urgell, A., Kattenberg, J. H., Dorny, P., Monsieurs, P. & Dermauw, V.

  DGD

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Development project

• DRC - FA4: Building capacity for health research in three DRC partner institutions Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (IRNB), Ecole de Santé Publique de l’Université de Lubumbashi (ESP) en Centre de Recherche Sanitaire de Kimpese (CRS), and rationalize the fight against Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) while strengthening local health systems with the support of all partners.

  Boelaert, M., Jacobs, J., Büscher, P., Polman, K., Rigouts, L., Dorny, P., Hardy, L., Corsmit, E., Roucher, C., Eddyani, M., Dermauw, V., Bebronne, N., Snijders, R., Inocêncio da Luz, R., Van Cauwenberg, I. & Everaert, R.

  DGD

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Development project

• R2STOP Leprosy: Improved understanding of ongoing transmission of leprosy in the Comoros, a region hyperendemic for the disease

  de Jong, B., Hasker, E., Assoumani, Y., Suffys, P. & Janssens, N.

  Research to STOP neglected tropical disease transmission

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research Project

• Trend of fluoroquinolone resistance among the MDR in DF Bangladesh

  Van Deun, A., Rigouts, L., de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research Project

• EUKARYOTE: Kinetoplast genomics for the fine-scale study of hybrid zones in eukaryote parasites

  Van den Broeck, F., Dujardin, J., Van Den Abbeele, J. & Stas, M.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/17 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research Project

• GUINEE - FA4: Contribute to the capacity building of the Maferinyah Center in the organization of continuing (medical) training and research in Guinea.

  Damme, W. V., van de Put, W., Delvaux, T. & Everaert, R.

  DGD

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Development project

• Trends in fluoroquinolone resistance in new TB patients in Bangladesh and the subsequent rate of acquired drug resistance

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research Project

• BURKINA - FA4: To strengthen the research capacity in the resource limited setting of Burkina Faso.

  Jacobs, J., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Hardy, L., Peeters, M., Kattenberg, J. H. & Ratsarahery, L.

  DGD

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Development project

• ZikaPLAN: Zika Preparedness Latin American Network Adressing the urgent research gaps against the Zika virus and other emerging threats in Latin America

  Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  European Commission

  1/10/16 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research Project

• Monitoring and Evaluation of a mobile Clinical Decision Making Support System (CDMSS) intervention for frontline providers of maternal and neonatal care in the Eastern region (ER) of Ghana

  Omolade Abejirinde, I. O., De Brouwere, V., van Roosmalen, J., Zweekhorst, M. & Bardaji, A.

  24/06/16 → 11/12/18

  Project: PhD-project

• Interventions towards a functional cure: detailed phenotyping of the HIV-specific polyfunctional CD8+ T cell responses of controllers

  Adams, P. A., Vanham, G. & Seguin-Devaux, C.

  24/06/16 → 12/02/20

  Project: PhD-project

• End TB Clinical Trial - Output 2

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  MSF France

  1/06/16 → 30/09/21

  Project: Service

• EMAR: Human African Trypanosomiasis: meeting the experts on trypanotolerance and animal reservoir

  Büscher, P. & De Smet, S.

  BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUDATION

  31/05/16 → 30/12/17

  Project: Research Project

• Search for host genetic factors associated with neurological complications (HAM/TSP) in Peruvian HTLV-1 infected individuals

  Talledo Albujar, M. J., Vanham, G., Van Camp, G. & Arevalo, J.

  18/05/16 → 27/09/16

  Project: PhD-project

• Modelling Taenia saginata epidemiology and control in Belgium

  Jansen, F., Berkvens, D., Gabriël, S. & Dorny, P.

  19/04/16 → 5/11/18

  Project: PhD-project

• Understanding the dynamics of accessing chronic medicines in rural and urban settings in South Africa

  Magadzire, B. P., Marchal, B., Damme, W. V., Sanders, D. & Ward, K.

  19/04/16 → 29/08/17

  Project: PhD-project

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• A realist evaluation of the antiretroviral treatment adherence club programme in selected primary health care facilities in the metropolitan area of the Western Cape Province, South Africa

  Mukumbang, F. C., Marchal, B., Van Belle, S. & van Wyk, B.

  19/04/16 → 15/02/18

  Project: PhD-project

• Taenia solium elimination versus control: what is the best method in a highly endemic area?

  Bulaya, C., Dorny, P., Gabriël, S. & Piri, I. K.

  19/04/16 → 7/10/16

  Project: PhD-project

• Bacterial bloodstream infections in Rwanda: a molecular surveillance study

  Rutanga, J. P., Jacobs, J., Jacobs, J. & Muvunyi, C.

  1/04/16 → 19/04/22

  Project: PhD-project

• End TB Clinical Trial - Output 1

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  MSF France

  1/03/16 → 29/02/20

  Project: Service

• DiTECT-HAT: Diagnostic tools for human African trypanosomiasis elimination and clinical trials

  Büscher, P. & Stas, M.

  EDCTP2

  1/02/16 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research Project

• Molecular Characterization of Mycobacterial Isolates Causing Tuberculosis in Humans and Animals in Northwest Ethiopia

  Kitata, M. E., de Jong, B., Diro, E., Rigouts, L., Torrea, G. & Gehre, F.

  1/02/16 → 16/06/22

  Project: PhD-project

• Estimation of the risk of developing resistance to anti-leishmanial drugs

  HEFNAWY, A. E., Dujardin, J. & Valkenborg, D.

  15/01/16 → 11/04/19

  Project: PhD-project

• Toxocara diagnosis and epidemiology

  Morales Yanez, F. J., Polman, K. & Muyldermans, S.

  15/01/16 → 5/07/19

  Project: PhD-project

• Epidemiology and control of polyparasitism with schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths and Taenia solium infections in rural and co-endemic areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Madinga Ntwan, J., Polman, K., Speybroeck, N. & Lutumba, P.

  15/01/16 → 19/01/18

  Project: PhD-project

• Positioning Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) in Resource Poor Settings

  Utz, B. & De Brouwere, V.

  15/01/16 → 27/06/18

  Project: PhD-project

• New tools for diagnosis and management of febrile illness in travelers to the tropics: a cohort study

  Huits, R., Bottieau, E., Jacobs, J., Van Esbroeck, M. & Cnops, L.

  15/01/16 → 1/02/19

  Project: PhD-project

• Access to Care to Leishmaniasis Treatment in Africa

  Sunyoto, T., Boelaert, M., Picado De Puig, A. & Potet, J.

  15/01/16 → 25/06/19

  Project: PhD-project

• Shadows over the "Golden Decade": how certain HIV-infected populations have not benefitted fully from the scale-up of anti-retroviral therapy and what can be done about it

  Vogt, F., van Griensven, J. & Colebunders, B.

  15/01/16 → 12/05/17

  Project: PhD-project

• Identification of risk factors and prediction of adverse treatment outcomes in visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia

  Abongomera, A. C., van Griensven, J., Colebunders, B., Diro, E. & Ritmeijer, K.

  2/01/16 → 30/05/18

  Project: PhD-project

• High treatment failure rates in Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness: the interface between drug resistant parasites and advanced disease stage.

  Van Reet, N., Büscher, P. & De Smet, S.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research Project

• WISH: Improving HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health care in high risk women in Rwanda using lessons learned from previous Rinda Ubuzima projects

  Buvé, A., Jespers, V. & Everaert, R.

  European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  1/01/16 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research Project

• ERINHA2: European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents

  Gryseels, B. & Decuypere, S.

  European Commission

  1/01/16 → 30/06/17

  Project: Research Project

• BCCM ERP/LIMS: BCCM Enterprise Resource Planning / Laboratory Management System 2016

  Rigouts, L. & Janssens, N.

  1/01/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research Project

• KalaCORE: Supporting the national Vector Control strategy in Nepal through capacity development

  Boelaert, M., Cloots, K., Ostyn, B. & Paessens, E.

  Mott MacDonald Limited

  1/01/16 → 28/02/19

  Project: Development project

• iMash: Developing, Testing and Optimizing Patient Education and Counseling in HIV Prevention through Digital Self-Managementand Group Counseling among Men having Sex with Men

  Laga, M., Reyniers, T. & Van Aerde, K.

  Koning Boudewijnstichting

  1/01/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research Project

• HIV-NANOVA: Rationeel ontwerp van een therapeutisch vaccin tegen HIV-1 gebaseerd op een nieuwe formulering van nanopartikel

  Aerts, J., Vanham, G. & Janssens, N.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/16 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research Project

• Biomarker Characterization and Assay Development for Rapid Clinical Diagnosis of the Select Biothreat Agents B. pseudomallei, B. mallei, and Y. pestis

  Jacobs, J. & Baert, E.

  SRI International

  9/11/15 → 15/01/19

  Project: Research Project

• HERMETIC: Using mathematical modelling to determine the number and characteristics of people living with undiagnosed HIV to inform targeted and innovative HIV testing

  Laga, M. & Van Aerde, K.

  Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie

  1/11/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research Project

• TRYP-ELIM: A demonstration project combining innovative case detection, tsetse control and IT to eliminate sleeping sickness at district level in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Boelaert, M., Hasker, E., Claeys, Y., Snijders, R. & Croon, A.

  BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUDATION

  21/10/15 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• Community-based ART in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learnt from Community ART Groups in Tete province, Mozambique

  Decroo, T., Laga, M. & Colebunders, B.

  14/10/15 → 16/06/17

  Project: PhD-project

• Perception of neglected zoonotic diseases among livestock owners in Africa: the One Health approach

  Thys, S., Boelaert, M., Dorny, P., Dorny, P. & Gabriël, S.

  14/10/15 → 11/09/19

  Project: PhD-project

• OptiDiag: Biomedical investigations for optimized diagnosis and monitoring of severe acute malnutrition. Elucidating the heterogenous diagnosis of SAM by current anthropometric criteria and moving beyond

  Dailey - Chwalibog, T. M., Kolsteren, P., Kolsteren, P. & Huneau, J.

  14/10/15 → 31/12/18

  Project: PhD-project

• An investigation of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and their pathogens in districts of northern Uganda affected by nodding syndrome

  Hendy, A., Madder, M. & Colebunders, B.

  7/10/15 → 6/02/18

  Project: PhD-project

• RHOST: Reactive Household-based Self-administered Treatment against residual malaria transmission in a cluster-randomised trial

  D'Alessandro, U., Peeters, K., Okebe, J., Yeung, S., Nwakanma, D., Di Tanna, G. L., Bradley, J., Balen, J. & Everaert, R.

  Medical Research Council, United Kingdom

  1/10/15 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research Project

• The role of intestinal parasite infections in child undernutrition and (change in) body fat in Mozambique

  Cossa Moiane, I., Polman, K. & de Deus, N.

  1/09/15 → 31/08/19

  Project: PhD-project

• Implications of the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Benin for tuberculosis presentation, diagnosis and outcome

  Sanoussi, C. N., de Jong, B., Rigouts, L. & Affolabi, D.

  1/09/15 → 7/10/19

  Project: PhD-project

• Improving the performance of health care delivery systems to provide quality care for persons with chronic diseases at the primary level of healthcare in rural Karnataka, India

  Lall, D., Criel, B. & Devadasan, N.

  1/08/15 → 9/03/22

  Project: PhD-project

• Taenia solium Elimination versus control: what is the best way forward for Sub-Saharan Africa?

  Hobbs, E. C., Dorny, P., Gabriël, S., Dorny, P., Willingham, A. L. & Ketzis, J.

  2/07/15 → 26/11/18

  Project: PhD-project

• An assessment of the effectiveness of maternal mobile technology in low and middle income countries

  Ilozumba, O., Marchal, B., Van Belle, S. & Broerse, J.

  2/07/15 → 11/12/18

  Project: PhD-project