International Medicine Locations
Bangladesh
Sites:
Dhaka (International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research-Bangladesh
- ICDDR-B)
Research Focus: Women's health, amebiasis, diarrhea,
enteric infections
Brazil
Sites:
Fortaleza (Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC), Natal (Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN),Salvador
(Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA),
Florianopolis (Universidade Federal do Santa Catarina - UFSC)
Research Focus: Enteric infections,
malabsorption, HIV/AIDS, diarrhea, cryptosporidiosis, cognitive
functioning, leishmaniasis
China
Sites:
Hefei (Anhui Medical University - AMU)
Research Focus: Helicobacter
pylori infection, diarrhea, gastric cancer, malnutrition,
enteric infections, cryptosporidiosis
Ghana
Sites:
Accra (University of Ghana Medical School - UGMS),
Kumasi (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, KNUST)
Research Focus: Meningitis, glutamine
supplementation, malaria, diarrhea, amebiasis
Collaborative Research conducted for 20 years
Guatemala
Sites: Quetzaltenango
(Primeros
Pasos)
Research Focus: Children's health, preventative
medicine, service-learning
Haiti
Sites:
Port-au-Prince (Haitian Group for Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and
Opportunistic Infections - GHESKIO)
Research Focus: Enteric diagnostics, clinical
outcomes of antiretroviral therapy
Philippines
Sites: Manila
(University of the Philippines - UP)
Health Issue/Research Focus: Enteric infections, tuberculosis,
diarrhea, sexually transmitted infections
South Africa
Sites:
Thohoyandou (University of Venda for Science and Technology - Univen)
Research Focus: Sexual assault, HIV/AIDS, sexually
transmitted infections, malnutrition, diarrhea, enteric infections,
Water and Health in Limpopo activities
Tanzania
Sites:
Moshi (Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center - KCMC
and Tumaini University - TU)
Research Focus: HIV/AIDS, diarrhea, enteric
infections, new diagnostics, TB and HIV co-infection
Uganda
Sites:
Kampala (Makerere University - MU),
Mbarara (Mbarara University of Science and Technology - MUST)
Research Focus: HIV/AIDS, sepsis, fluid rehydration
therapy

