Overview of The Canada-Africa Prevention Trials Network Presented by Dr. Andrew Kambugu

Overview of

The Canada-Africa Prevention Trials Network

Presented by Dr. Andrew Kambuguat the Afri-Can Synchronicity Forum

18 January, 2013Entebbe, Uganda

CAPTN grew out of a meeting during the 2006 Int’l. AIDS Conference in Toronto.

The central idea was to link existing bilateral (Canadian-African) teams together into a network, with the purpose of facilitating inter-team collaboration.

History

Canada-Africa Prevention Trials (CAPT) Network



• Was Inaugurated in March 2007

• CAPTN is an affiliation of:– More than 30 African and Canadian researchers

– 8 African and 5 Canadian institutions

• The Network is led by a Steering Committee, composed of representatives of each of the affiliated institutions and at least one other stakeholders

The CAPT Network


Canada-Africa Prevention Trials (CAPT) Network CHVI Partners Development Forum | October 13 2008Presentation by Dr. David Moore, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Canada-Africa Prevention Trials (CAPT) Network CHVI Partners Development Forum | October 13 2008Presentation by Dr. David Moore, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Mission• To strengthen independent basic and clinical research capacity in eastern and southern Africa.

• To facilitate and conduct first class prevention science with high needs populations.

• To link care, treatment and prevention research.

Main objectives• Develop an African-led research plan that responds to locally identified priorities and

operationalizes the CAPT Network Discordant Couples (DISCO) Cohort.

• Build a sustainable research network that can mobilize in response to the need for coordinated multicentre trials of HIV vaccines, microbicides, and diagnostics.

• Enhance research capacity through the provision of infrastructure resources, staff, training and harmonization of internationally accepted procedures.

• Collaborate with other networks

• Emphasis on African leadership

• Transparency

• Operating in good faith

• Avoidance conflict of interest

• Promotion of collaboration

Guiding Principles for the Network



The inaugural meeting

The Network is built around its eight African sites.

The CAPT Network’s structure




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Nairobi

Johannesburg

Cape Town

Pietermaritzburg

The sites


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Jinja

Nairobi

Johannesburg

Cape Town

Pietermaritzburg

The Regions

The Network’s annual activities include:

1) Assisting the 8 African sites with infrastructure staffing;

2) Providing career training awards (3 mentorships, 5 Master’s/doctoral scholarships and 1 postdoctoral fellowship)

3) Assisting Network researchers with study development & implementation, grant writing, abstract preparation and manuscript writing;

4) Coordinating Regional and Network-wide communications, including inter-site meetings and training workshops.

The CAPT Network’s activities


A few highlights from the South African sites’ 2013 activities…



A few highlights from the South African sites’ 2013 activities…

•Maintaining CAPT Network website and the Immunopaedia website;

•Providing support for training activities, such as the annual Southern Africa immunology workshop and the PHRU publications writing program;

•Expanding football-based ‘WhizzKids’ behaviour change program beyond Pietermaritzburg into other South Africa sites;

•Implementing a multi-site adolescent male circumcision initiative aimed at associating behaviour change with immunological composition of the circumcised foreskins.



A few highlights from the East African sites’ 2013 activities…



A few highlights from the East African sites’ 2013 activities…

•Supporting ongoing research with existing cohorts (most notably discordant couples cohorts, but other cohorts as well, including fisher folk and adolescents;)

•Publishing the results of recent Network studies, such as the Yellow Fever Microarray Study and the HAARP Study;

•Beginning new studies, such as a treatment-as-prevention study among discordant couples in Nairobi and a safe male circumcision program in 8 Ugandan fishing villages;

•Hosting this Afri-Can Forum, which has brought many different networks and teams here today.




The CAPTN online……

www.captnetwork.org


Thank youCanada-Africa Prevention Trials (CAPT) Network

Documents

Overview of The Canada-Africa Prevention Trials Network Presented by Dr. Andrew Kambugu