TDR and the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) are pleased to announce 14 recipients of grants to conduct implementation research in infectious diseases of poverty (IDPs). In close collaboration with EMRO, these impact grants will help TDR achieve its strategic goals.
In selecting the projects, TDR focused on research priority areas emerging from a Regional Health Research Prioritization workshop held on 21 February 2022; these priorities fall under the following broad headings:
- malaria and vector control
- tuberculosis
- hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- neglected tropical diseases
Each of the recipient projects is listed in the table below.
Country | Name of grant recipient | Project title |
Sudan | Manasik Elbadri | Urban malaria and associated risk factors including invasive Anopheles stephensi malaria vector, environment and socioeconomics in El Kalakla, Khartoum City. |
Yemen | Doa'a Ibrahim | Community pharmacists' knowledge and practice regarding malaria management: a cross-sectional study in Hodeida, Yemen. |
Yemen | Rashad Abdul-Ghani | Quality of medical practitioners’ adherence to national malaria treatment guidelines for uncomplicated malaria in Hodeidah city, Yemen. |
Iran | Mahshid Nasehi | Estimation of total direct and indirect pre-diagnostic costs of Iranian TB patients in 2022: A mixed-method study. |
Pakistan | Ayesha Humayun | Pattern of drug resistance, its associated factors and treatment-related adverse events in tuberculosis patients in PMDT centers in Lahore. |
Yemen | Asmaa Al-Awadi | IGRA-based burden of latent tuberculosis and evaluation of the routinely used tuberculin skin test for active case-finding among asymptomatic type-2 diabetic patients in Sana'a city, Yemen. |
Palestine | Samer Abuzerr | Computer-aided diagnostic accuracy of pulmonary tuberculosis on chest radiography among public sector patients in the Gaza Strip, Palestine: A neglected disease in a resource-limited country. |
Iran | Tahereh Pashaei | The study of acceptability of HIV self-testing among women injecting drug users (WIDUs): A mixed method study. |
Morocco | Amal Ben-Moussa | The added value of community-based organizations in the HIV care continuum and access for vulnerable populations in Morocco. |
Pakistan | Muslima Ejaz | Assessment of community interventions to improve retention and reengagement of lost to follow-up Pakistani sexual and gender minorities in HIV care: a qualitative enquiry. |
Sudan | Abdalla Sharief | Assessment of diagnosis and treatment coverage for visceral leishmaniasis in a highly endemic area of Sudan: a qualitative study. |
Somalia | Jonah Kiruja | Assessing the impact of scabies among vulnerable populations, taking into account burden estimation as well as biological and social determinants in three IDPs in Somaliland. |
Iran | Arezoo Bozorgomid | Scabies among Afghan migrants in Iran: burden, biological, environmental and social determinants. |
Pakistan | Sheraz Fazid | Scabies in Afghan refugees of Pakistan: A mixed-method study for exploring the burden of a neglected tropical disease and lived experiences for issues in the uptake of health seeking care in Afghan refugees in villages of Pakistan. |
For more information, please contact Dr Garry Aslanyan at TDR, or Dr Ahmed Mandil at WHO EMRO.