ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS IN KEMRI-CIPDCR
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS IN KEMRI-CIPDCR

Pediatric HIV Drug Resistance Testing In Kenya using Dried Blood Spots technology, 2010-2011, National Council of Science and Technology,

Evaluation of the PIMA Point-Of-Care Test for Measurement of CD4+ T-Cell Absolute Count for the Immunological Assessment of Patients. Funded, Clinton Health Access Initiative

Integrated Information Technology And Human Resource Capacity Building For HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance And Management. Funded, EDCTP-KI

Novel Approaches To The Diagnosis, Characterization And Surveillance of Priority Infectious Diseases. Funded, CNHR

A Seroprevalence Survey for Yellow Fever Virus Exposure in Humans at Selected Health Facilities In Kenya.  Funded by Nagasaki University, April 2008-March 2013

Paediatric HIV Diagnosis In Kenya: A service provision by the Kenya Medical Research Institute and the Clinton Foundation (Kenya)-Funded by Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative.

Determination Of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C And HIV Co-Infection Using Unlinked Anonymous Dried Blood Spot Samples From Selected Informal Urban Settlements In Nairobi. Fully Funded by Rockefeller foundation, March 2008-September 2010.

Population-Based Monitoring Of HIV Drug Resistance Emerging In Adults During Treatment And Related Programme Factors In Sentinel ART Sites In Kenya. WHO, August 2008

Evaluation of Transmitted HIV Drug Resistance Using Anonymous Specimens from Unlinked HIV Serosurveys In Kenya. WHO, 2009

Collection and Analysis of HIV Drug Resistance Early Warning Indicators (HIVDR EWI) In Kenya. WHO, 2009

A Cross Sectional Study of clinical, immunological and virological outcomes after 12 months of standard antiretroviral therapy in Busia District Hospital, Kenya, MSF Spain, 2007-

Development of a concurrent detection method for a wide range of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) in Africa, NUITM 2010

Development of rapid diagnostic test kits in KEMRI and the establishment of arbovirus outbreak alert system in Kenya, especially Yellow Fever and Rift Valley Fever, JICA JST-2012-2016

Design and construction of software and hardware platforms "Data Centers" for the improvement of health service delivery and e-government, KEMRI, Hewlett Packard-CHAI, 2010-2011

Superficial Fungal Infections in the Context of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Western Kenya.

Genotyping of HIV-1 in relation to antiretroviral drug resistance in western Kenya. Funded through Kemri Internal Grants.

Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites in HIV-infected adults in western Kenya. Not Funded.

Surveillance of Cholera in Busia District Hospital in western Kenya

A Seroprevalence Survey for Dengue-2 Virus and West  Nile Virus Exposure in humans at selected health facilities in Kenya.

 

Vision

"To be a leading centre of excellence in human health research."

Mission

"To improve human health and quality of life through research, capacity building and service delivery."

Motto

"In Search of Better Health"
towards the realization of our Vision