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Center for Infectious Diseases
Administrative Offices Only - No Patients Access

CB# 7030
130 Mason Farm Road
2nd Floor Bioinformatics
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
T: (919) 966-2536
F: (919) 966-6714

 

UNC Infectious Diseases Clinic
For Patient Services and Care

101 Manning Drive
1st Floor Memorial Bldg.
Chapel Hill, NC  27514
T: (919) 966-7198
F: (919) 966-4587

 

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Madagascar

Antanarivo Madagascar

Antanarivo, Madagascar

The University of North Carolina has been working in Madagascar since 1995. Led by Dr. Frieda Behets, the UNC-MAD research project has more than 100 full-time employees working at five sites in Madagascar, with central offices located in the National Institute of Public and Community Health in Antananarivo. The in-country director at UNC-MAD is Dr. Kathleen Van Damme.

Research at UNC-MAD is focused on sexually transmitted infections among a cohort of sex workers. UNC-MAD has trained local lab technicians in the testing of study specimens as part of its goal of establishing a sustainable workforce. Ongoing research directed by Dr. Behets includes a NIH-funded clinical trial for treatment of syphilis and prevention methods for chlamydial infections in high-risk women.
Breakthrough of the Year!

The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by center director Myron S. Cohen, M.D., has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.