Promoting infant health and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
During the week of September 23 to 25 2024, the Uganda team (Rachel King, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Elly Nuwamanya), the French team (Nicolas Nagot, Philippe Vande Perre, Jean-Pierre Moles, and Anaïs Mennecier) and the Uganda team (Thorkild Tylleskär) visited Lusaka Team. Continue reading PROMISE-ZERO: International team visit to Lusaka and kick off meeting
During the week of September 17 to 20 2024, the UTH team (Dr Mwiya, David Rutagwera and Beauty Matoka) and the French team (Nicolas Nagot, Philippe Vande Perre, Jean-Pierre Moles, and Anaïs Mennecier) travelled to the Eastern province to meet Continue reading PROMISE-ZERO: Visit to Eastern province by the UTH and French teams
Our intervention, initiated at EPI-2 and based on extended single-drug postnatal prophylaxis guided by point-of-care maternal viral load could be an important strategy for paediatric HIV elimination. We did a phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial at four health-care facilities Continue reading New publication in Lancet on the results of PROMISE-EPI
Our study aimed to assess the PMTCT indicators in Burkina Faso and Zambia using a patient-orientated innovative strategy based on the second visit in the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI-2) visit at 6–8 weeks. The results are published in the journal Continue reading New publication on the results of PROMISE-EPI
Training in medical research and the presentation of the PROMISE-ZERO study to the Community Advisory Board , as well as the training of the study interviewers, took place in Lusaka during the second week of October 2023. The discussions were Continue reading Community Advisory Board – Lusaka October 2023
The PROMISE Research Consortium has submitted an abstracts to the EDCTP 11th Forum, titled “Evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programs at the second immunization visit in Burkina Faso and Zambia, countries with different HIV epidemics” (PROMISE-EPI) Continue reading Abstracts submitted to the EDCTP 11th Forum
PROMISE-EPI at CROI (February 2023) Two abstracts were submitted and accepted at CROI 2023! The main study results of the study were presented in an oral presentation on February 20: https://www.croiwebcasts.org/console/player/51600?mediaType=slideVideo& A poster described the maternal HIV viral load fluctuation Continue reading PROMISE-EPI at CROI (February 2023)
A first dissemination meeting was held on October 26, 2022 in Lusaka, Zambia. Just under 100 people attended the meeting, including members of the Ministry of Health, CDC, Ethics Committee, CIDRZ, ICAP, PCOE, , NGOs and health center professionals. A Continue reading Stakeholder dissemination meetings in Zambia and Burkina Faso
The recruitment in PROMISE-EPI was carried out from December 2019 to June 2021 in Zambia and from December 2020 to September 2021 in Burkina Faso. In total, 34,315 participants were included in component 1 (mothers coming for EPI-2 visit) and Continue reading PROMISE-EPI has ended recruitment
The PROMISE consortium has published the results of their long-term study showing similar long-term clinical outcomes from early use of two different HIV prophylactic drugs in Nature. Read more from the Centre for International Health’s website. Read the Nature article.