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About MDP
The Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) is an Afro-European partnership to develop vaginal microbicides for the prevention of HIV transmission. MDP is coordinated jointly by Imperial College, London, and the Clinical Trials Unit of the UK Medical Research Council. Partner institutions in Africa are University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia; Medical Research Council Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe; African Medical and Research Foundation and National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania; the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; South African Medical Research Council, Durban; and the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In Mozambique, there are two new MDP sites at the rural Manhica Health Research Centre and at Mavalane Hospital in the urban capital of Maputo. European partners include the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, St. George's Hospital, London, and the Universities of York, Southampton and Barcelona. Clinical sites are located in South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Mozambique.
MDP has built a vigorous multicultural and multidisciplinary research
network ready to undertake future work of comparable importance and
complexity. Years of working collegially have built cohesiveness,
efficiency and mutual trust among the scientists, clinical staff, data
managers, and other professionals and support staff comprising this
Afro-European and pan-African clinical trial network, as well as sound
relationships wit
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