International Collaborations

completed project

IDEA

Dissecting the Immunological Interplay between Poverty Related Diseases and Helminth Infections: An African-European Research Initiative

IDEA is a project funded by the European Union FP7 program with more than 20 institutes from Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa.

IDEA focuses its efforts on four primary objectives:

  • The worm-induced modulation of the functional and molecular profile of HIV-, TB- and malaria-specific immune responses
  • The impact by worm co-infections on measures of disease activity of PRDs
  • The immunologic markers of worm-, HIV-, TB- and malaria-specific immune responses associated with better control of pathogen replication and disease
  • The modulation by worm co-infections of vaccine-induced immune responses

IDEA is coordinated by the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). EVF has provided the support in project management and has sponsored the HIV vaccine trials (EV06 and EV07).

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