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International Partnerships

The HIV-Exposed but Uninfected Infant: How Can Excess Morbidity and Mortality be Explained?

Principal Investigator, David Speert, Pediatrics, UBC.
Local organizers: Monica Esser, Tygerberg Hospital, and Ben Marais and Mark Cotton, Pediatrics, Stellenbosch University.

The Institute held its first Colloquium Abroad November 3-5, 2009 at one of the Institute’s partner institutes, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch South Africa. The colloquium sought to explain why babies exposed to HIV but uninfected (“HEU”) by their mothers are at enhanced risk of poor health and development during the first year of life. At this international workshop were discussed the multiple dimensions of this problem in an attempt to plan a study in South Africa to explain this phenomenon. The collaborative aspects of the meeting contributed substantially to the preparation of a Wall Major Thematic Grant on the topic of HEU.