Sub-Saharan African region news, resources and funding for global health researchers

and NIH support a diverse mix of research projects in sub-Saharan Africa with significant activities in approximately 20 African countries. About a third of the funding supports groundbreaking research and research training on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, including a substantial effort to study mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Around 20 percent funds research on other infectious diseases, ranging from population-based research on malaria, schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis, to molecular research on vectors and parasites. Chronic disease research makes up about 12 percent of the research portfolio, with the remainder devoted to child development, biodiversity, basic research and other studies.

Countries in Region

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, São Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Grant Awards in Region

• Fogarty grant awards impacting the sub-Saharan African Region

Recent Region News

• Report: Transforming the Institutional Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for Leveraging Africa’s Research Capacity to Achieve Socioeconomic Development
  Center for Global Development, July 1, 2019
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Eric Coker sheds new light on Uganda's indoor air pollution
  May / June 2019 Global Health Matters
• Diseases cost Africa $2.4 trillion per year, WHO reports
  May / June 2019 Global Health Matters
• New fellowship program will bring African scientists to train at NIH
  Jan / Feb 2019 Global Health Matters
• Building neurology research capacity in Zambia: Q and A with Dr Omar Siddiqi
  Jan / Feb 2019 Global Health Matters
• President Donald J. Trump’s Africa strategy advances prosperity, security and stability
  White House Fact Sheet, December 13, 2018
• Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa:
  Q and A with Dr Glenda Gray
  Nov / Dec 2018 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Cameron Gaskill studies HIV referral patterns in Ghana
  Nov / Dec 2018 Global Health Matters
• US First Lady Melania Trump supports USAID programs in Africa
  Nov / Dec 2018 Global Health Matters
• The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Strengthening Human Resources to End AIDS and Improve Health in Africa, co-authored by Fogarty leadership
  Academic Medicine courtesy of PubMed, October 16, 2018
• Sub-Saharan Africa’s health, research workforce gets $26M boost
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• As dementia rises in Africa, urgent need for research
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty-supported research [in Uganda] revolutionizes hydrocephalus care
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• Profile: First Fogarty ophthalmology Fellow Dr Fran Wu studies rare pediatric cancer in Ethiopia
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• Second NIH Rwandan Fellow Dr. J. Damascene Kabakambira works to prevent diabetes in Africa
  NIMHD/NIH news, July 24, 2018
• Related news: First fellow graduates from NIH-Rwanda program
  Jul / Aug 2017 Global Health Matters
• Research to guide practice: enhancing HIV/AIDS platform to address non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa [Open access], generated by a project led by Fogarty’s Center for Global Health Studies
  Supplement to AIDS, July 1, 2018
• The power of multigenerational mentorship in Uganda: Q and A with Dr Mark Kaddumukasa
  May / Jun 2018 Global Health Matters
• Low-cost mental health innovation enables access to care in Africa, US
  Mar / Apr 2018 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Armed with career development award, former Fogarty Fellow fights rheumatic heart disease in Malawi
  Mar / Apr 2018 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty continues to advance African health education
  Jan / Feb 2018 Global Health Matters
• Making the case for African investment in research
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Jan / Feb 2018 Global Health Matters
• Multigenerational research in South Africa leads to HIV discoveries
  Jan / Feb 2018 Global Health Matters
• Q and A with Dr Andrew Dykens: Collaboration with Peace Corps in Senegal enhances Fogarty career development award
  Jan / Feb 2018 Global Health Matters
• Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression, co-funded by NIH and the South African Medical Research Council
  NIAID/NIH news, January 24, 2018
• Related publication: Integrin α4β7 expression on peripheral blood CD4+ T cells predicts HIV acquisition and disease progression outcomes
  Science Translational Medicine, January 24, 2018
• Q and A with Dr John Nkengasong, director of Africa CDC and former Fogarty trainee
  Nov / Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Training Africans to fight NCDs in Africa
  Nov / Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Examining diet's role in NCDs in Nigeria
  Nov / Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty funds additional grants to support research training in Ebola-affected countries
  Sep / Oct 2017 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Dorothy Dow studies suicide prevention in teens with HIV in Tanzania
  Sep / Oct 2017 Global Health Matters
• Bioinformatics programs in Africa receive $5M for research training from Fogarty
  Sep / Oct 2017 Global Health Matters
• Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth
  The Lancet Global Health, September 15, 2017 (online)
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Lily Gutnik boosts breast cancer screening in Malawi
  Jul / Aug 2017 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty protects Americans by building pandemic response capacity in Ebola-hit West Africa
  Mar / Apr 2017 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Gilberte Bastien tackles Ebola's unseen mental scars in Liberia
  Mar / Apr 2017 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Global Health Fellow Dr Emmanuel Balandya studies sickle cell immunity in Tanzania
  Jan / Feb 2017 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty provides support to Ebola-affected countries
  Nov / Dec 2016 Global Health Matters
• NIH funds research network to reduce stroke in Africa
  Nov / Dec 2016 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Laura Lewandowski studies lupus in South African children
  Nov / Dec 2016 Global Health Matters
• Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (UNCST) signs MoU [with NIH] to support Ugandan scientists, research
  New Vision - Uganda, October 5, 2015
• African medical education program enters next phase
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Continuing to strengthen science capacity in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty program develops bioethics expertise in Uganda
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• NIH-led effort uses implementation science approaches to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission
  Jul / Aug 2016 Global Health Matters
• Related publication: Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) Supplement, August 2016
• Q and A with Dr Peter Mason: Training researchers in Zimbabwe
  Jul / Aug 2016 Global Health Matters
• PREVAIL treatment trial for men with persistent Ebola viral RNA in semen opens in Liberia
  NIAID/NIH news, July 5, 2016
• Analysis of 1976 Ebola outbreak holds lessons relevant today
  Fogarty news, June 29, 2016
• Related publication: Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, June 29, 2016
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr Andrew Gardner casts light on alcohol injuries in Ghana
  May / Jun 2016 Global Health Matters
• MenAfriVac vaccine slashes meningitis cases in Africa
  May / Jun 2016 Global Health Matters
• Ebola, Zika modelers aim to inform policy decisions
  Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
• Building capacity in implementation science research training at the University of Nairobi
  Implementation Science, March 8, 2016
• Vaginal ring provides partial protection from HIV in large [NIH-funded clinical trial in four sub-Saharan African countries]
  NIAID/NIH news, February 22, 2016
• PEPFAR’s Dr Deborah Birx urges sharper focus [on high-risk populations, especially young women in sub-Saharan Africa,] to halt HIV globally
  Jan / Feb 2016 Global Health Matters
• Testing curbs malaria drug misuse in Kenya
  Jan / Feb 2016 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr John Stanifer studies kidney disease in Tanzania
  Jan / Feb 2016 Global Health Matters
• South African cohort studies yield key health insights
  Jan / Feb 2016 Global Health Matters

Fogarty Contact

Stacy Wallick, M.P.H.
International Program Officer
Division of International Relations
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31 Room B2C11
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: 301-496-2091
FAX: 301-480-3414
Email (preferred): Stacy.Wallick@nih.gov

NIH News & Resources

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Global Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
• H3Africa spurs range of genomic research, training
  Nov / Dec 2015 Global Health Matters
• Q and A with Dr Nicola Mulder on bioinformatics and H3Africa
  Nov / Dec 2015 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Akwi W. Asombang advances cancer research in Zambia
  Nov / Dec 2015 Global Health Matters
• NIH awards $36M to train junior faculty in Africa through MEPI program
  Sep / Oct 2015 Global Health Matters
• Rwandan Minister Dr Agnes Binagwaho discusses country's health advances
  Sep / Oct 2015 Global Health Matters
• Q and A with Dr Nelson Sewankambo on research and training in Uganda
  Jul / Aug 2015 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Jennifer Syvertsen documents drugs and HIV risk in Kenya
  Jul / Aug 2015 Global Health Matters
• Music video by NIH trainees in Cameroon urges malaria prevention
  Jul / Aug 2015 Global Health Matters
• MEPI grantee publication: Medical education departments: a study of four medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa
  BME Medical Education, July 1, 2015
• State capability and Rwanda's health gains
  The Lancet Global Health, June 2015
• NIH, South Africa partner on $8M in research projects
  May / June 2015 Global Health Matters
• NIH, South African Medical Research Council award $8 million in HIV, TB grants
  NIAID/NIH news, April 13, 2015
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Rockefeller Oteng studies trauma, injury in Ghana
  Mar / Apr 2015 Global Health Matters
• NIH Ebola vaccine trial gets underway in Liberia
  Jan/Feb 2015 Global Health Matters
• Experimental Ebola vaccine safe, prompts immune response: Results from US government-sponsored phase 1 trial of VSV vaccine reported
  NIAID/NIH news, April 1, 2015
• Ebola test vaccines appear safe in Phase 2 Liberian clinical trial: Liberia-US partnership planning Phase 3 trial and study of Ebola survivors
  NIAID/NIH news, March 26, 2015
• Liberia-U.S. clinical research partnership opens trial to test Ebola treatments: Initial study will evaluate experimental drug cocktail ZMapp
  NIAID/NIH news, February 27, 2015
• Ebola vaccine trial opens in Liberia: Study led by Liberia-NIH partnership will test two experimental vaccines
  NIAID/NIH news, February 2, 2015
• Medical Education Partnership Initiative aids Ebola response
  Jan/Feb 2015 Global Health Matters
• Sub-Saharan Africa genomics study gives clues about disease
  Jan/Feb 2015 Global Health Matters
• Obama visits NIH to call for more funding for Ebola research
  Nov/Dec 2014 Global Health Matter
• Building the human capacity to deal with Ebola: How can we prevent future disease outbreaks?
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Nov/Dec 2014 Global Health Matters
• Lessons learned from 1976 Ebola outbreak
  Q and A with Fogarty Scientist Emeritus Dr Joel Breman
  Nov/Dec 2014 Global Health Matters
• Focus on sickle cell disease:
• Research needed to treat sickle cell disease in Africa
  Nov/Dec 2014 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Juliana Anyanwu studies sickle cell drug in Uganda
  Nov/Dec 2014 Global Health Matters
• Funders urged to invest in Africa's research capacity
  Nov/Dec 2014 Global Health Matters
• Wellcome Trust announces multi-million-pound initiative for emergency Ebola research and £40m investment in African research
  Wellcome Trust news, August 21, 2014
• Funding opportunity: Wellcome Trust Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science Initiative (DELTAS) Africa
• US-Africa Leaders Summit
• US-Africa summit encourages investments in health
  Sep / Oct 2014 Global Health Matters
• African leaders visit NIH campus
  Fogarty news, updated August 12, 2014
• Partnering with African scientists to improve global health
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass, July 31, 2014
• Highlights of NIH research partnerships in Africa
• Africa, with US help, graduates more doctors
  New York Times, August 11, 2014
• African medical education is being transformed by US program, journal articles report
  Fogarty news, July 30, 2014
• Research is essential to improving health in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Sep / Oct 2014 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Jennifer Tang researches women's health in Malawi
  Sep / Oct 2014 Global Health Matters
• Rwandan Health Minister Dr Agnes Binagwaho discusses research collaborations with NIH
  Jul / Aug 2014 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Bhakti Hansoti develops triage tool for South African children
  Jul / Aug 2014 Global Health Matters
• Research Capacity: Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa
  Science, June 20, 2014
• From Uganda to NIH, to Solve a Seizure Mystery
  NIH Director's Blog, June 3, 2014
• Envisioning the end of AIDS: challenges and prospects
  Q and A with Dr Salim Abdool Karim of CAPRISA
  Mar / Apr 2014 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar helps accelerate disease diagnoses in South Africa
  Mar / Apr 2014 Global Health Matters
• South African study 'opens new possibilities for curing HIV'
  SouthAfrica.info, March 4, 2014
• Developmental pathway for potent V1V2-directed HIV-neutralizing antibodies
  Nature, March 2, 2014
• Cassava root causes cognitive damage in Congolese villages
  Jan / Feb 2014 Global Health Matters
• Education may curb epilepsy linked to pig parasite in Burkina Faso
  Jan / Feb 2014 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty Fellow learns skills useful for global health career in Kenya
  Jan / Feb 2014 Global Health Matters
• NIH programs build synergy, capacity in Africa
  Nov / Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty funds ecology, genetics studies of malaria in Ghana
  Nov / Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
• African medical schools see profound culture change
  Sep / Oct 2013 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty Fellow Dr Robin Petroze studies Rwanda's surgical capacity
  Sep / Oct 2013 Global Health Matters
• African science journals and paper submissions grow
  Jul / Aug 2013 Global Health Matters
• NIH World REPORT - A database on global health research in Africa
  The Lancet Global Health, July 5, 2013
• NIH releases World RePORT [beta] illustrative mapping database of biomedical research around the world funded by NIH and others - December 2012
• Focus on genomics: Africa's genetic diversity holds promise
  May / Jun 2013 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Mark Siedner adapts medical practices in Uganda
  May / Jun 2013 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow researches pediatric cardiology in Malawi
  Jan / Feb 2013 Global Health Matters
• Research collaboration develops clay water filters to reduce diarrheal disease
  Jan / Feb 2013 Global Health Matters
• Searching for causes of Buruli ulcers in Ghana
  Jan / Feb 2013 Global Health Matters
• H3Africa begins building Africa's genomics expertise
  Nov / Dec 2012 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty fellow researches inherited childhood glaucoma in Nigeria
  Nov / Dec 2012 Global Health Matters
• Africa's medical journals see rapid recovery
  Research Africa, February 13, 2012
• African journals partnership moves forward
  May / Jun 2011 Global Health Matters

US Government Resources

• U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Africa

Online Resources

• African Journal Partnership Program (AJPP)
• Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)
• Federation of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) Legacy Project to support Ph.D. students across Africa
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) report:
  The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy - Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Edition
• The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM)
• Scientific African, an open access, pan-African scientific journal
• World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa