IRD Research Unit 174-PHPT
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Jacques Lapouge, French Ambassador in Thailand; Fabian Forni, Counsellor for Culture and Cooperation, and Thomas Baude, Honorary French Consul in Chiang Mai visited PHPT and Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University on Friday 8 February 2019. They met Sakorn Pornprasert, Dean of the Faculty of Associated Medical Science, Chiang Mai University, Gonzague Jourdain and several researchers and staff of the PHPT-AMS research collaboration team.
Jean-Paul Moatti, President-Director General, IRD, France; Jacques Berger, IRD Representative in Thailand; Olivier Evrard, future IRD Representative in Thailand, and Nejma André, in charge of Asia-Pacific affairs at IRD, visited PHPT and Faculty of Associated Medical Science, Chiang Mai University on Saturday and Sunday 19-20 January 2019. They met Sakorn Pornprasert, Dean of the Faculty of Associated Medical Science, Chiang Mai University, Gonzague Jourdain and several researchers and staff of the PHPT research collaboration team, on Saturday; and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University on Sunday. On Thursday 24 January, JP Moatti, N André, Eric Deharo and others scientists visited Mother and Newborn Hospital in Vientiane, Lao PDR with Gonzague Jourdain who presented the iTAP-2 study in the presence of the Director of the hospital and Touy Chanthalansy, principal site investigator.
A workshop was organized on December 17, 2018, at Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai to discuss preliminary results of the Napneung Project
Napneung (www.napneung.net) is project where anybody can be tested for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, free of charge. The research team is studying methods to increase access to testing and retesting for perons at high risk of infection.
The French Ambassador to Thailand Jacques Lapouge, Associate Prof. Dr. Vanchai Sirichana, President of Mae Fah Luang University, and Assistant Prof. Dr. Wasna Sirirungsi, former dean of the faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, gave opening remarks.
Napneung (www.napneung.net) is project where anybody can be tested for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, free of charge. The research team is studying methods to increase access to testing and retesting for perons at high risk of infection.
The French Ambassador to Thailand Jacques Lapouge, Associate Prof. Dr. Vanchai Sirichana, President of Mae Fah Luang University, and Assistant Prof. Dr. Wasna Sirirungsi, former dean of the faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, gave opening remarks.
At PHPT, we design and test methods to improve the Prevention and Treatment of HIV infection and virus-associated cancers in Southeast Asia.
This is a collaboration between Chiang Mai University (CMU) and Institut de Recherche p our le Développement (IRD) for research in HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), human papillomavirus (HPV), and tuberculosis, along with hospitals and other institutions in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
This is a collaboration between Chiang Mai University (CMU) and Institut de Recherche p our le Développement (IRD) for research in HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), human papillomavirus (HPV), and tuberculosis, along with hospitals and other institutions in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
HeBOOC, a free online training course
on hepatitis B clinical management
For the World Hepatitis Day this saturday, July 28th, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the Chiang Mai University Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences joint research unit PHPT launch today a new tool for physicians and other health care workers to learn or update their knowledge on hepatitis B. HeBOOC is a free online self-training course available at https://www.hebooc.org/?lang=EN
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The results of the iTAP study conducted by PHPT and its hospitals network (17 public hospitals) increase the interest for a new strategy to prevent the transmission of hepatitis B virus from mother to child. They have been published in the New England Journal of Medecine on March 8, 2018.
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