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Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Recorded sessions

  • Dr Man Charurat (Participant)

    As the Director of IHV Division of Epidemiology and Prevention and Global Director for the Center of International Health, Education, and Biosecurity (CIHEB), Dr. Charurat has over 15 years of research experience in among vulnerable and key populations, HIV treatment and prevention service delivery, and HIV surveillance. In the mid-1990's, Dr. Charurat was an active investigator in the NIH-funded Women and Infants Transmission Study (WITS) when mother-to-child HIV transmission was fairly high in the U.S., and in the early 2000's he pioneered the mobile recruitment platform that successfully provided PEPFAR services to key populations such as female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and higher-risk pregnant women (CDC 200-2003-01716.) Dr. Charurat published a first molecular characterization of circulating HIV-1 infections in Nigeria and is working with the CDC and the GON to improve incidence rate determination and surveillance across different populations in Nigeria. He is current PI on three R01s: R01DE025174 characterizes microbiome among HIV-Exposed but uninfected infants in Nigeria