Welcome to PHPT

PHPT, the IRD research unit (PHPT-IRD174), was created in 1996 in Chiang Mai, the epicenter of the HIV epidemic in Thailand at that time. PHPT's overall objective is to improve HIV prevention and care at the family level. PHPT has developed a large network of scientists, academics, public health policy makers and clinicians affiliated with governmental and academic institutions in Thailand and elsewhere.

Today PHPT works to:

• Improve the efficacy, safety and tolerance of therapies for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.

• Minimize the risk of developing resistances to antiretrovirals used for the prevention of mother to child transmission that could limit the response to antiretroviral drugs when mothers or infected infants later begin therapy for their own health.

Develop methods and strategies that maximize the effectiveness and safety of antiretroviral treatments in the family setting.

The PHPT clinical research group in Thailand includes a network of over 50 public hospitals in the regions most affected by HIV, and a Study Coordination Center for logistics, administration, monitoring, data processing, pharmacy and training established in Chiang Mai. In addition, an HIV Virology and Pharmacology Laboratory capable of performing HIV RNA and DNA viral quantification, sequencing, serology, antiretroviral drugs plasma dosing, and CD4 evaluation has also been established in collaboration with the Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences at Chiang Mai University.

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