Government collaborates with Netherlands & Sweden for Research Programme on HIV/AIDS

India-Netherlands-Sweden Launched Collaborative Research Programme On HIV/AIDS- Details, Aim, Purpose

Governments of India, Netherlands and Sweden launched the first-of-its-kind collaborative research programme on HIV/AIDS on 23rd May 2018 at an event in New Delhi.

The collaborative research programme is aimed at harnessing complementary research strengths and diverse expertise across three nations to catalyze the development of better tools to understand and address burgeoning global epidemic of HIV.

The collaborative research programme will focus on accessing relevant populations of research interest and strengthening next-generation technologies and advanced predictive analytics to better understand geographic diversity and different factors of HIV/AIDS virus.

The collaborative research programme will also focus on divergent human immune responses based on genetic, immunological and behavioral determinants. This information will be crucial in developing new and improved tools for treatment, prevention and possible cure for HIV in near future.

This joint efforts will bring together several Government and Non-Government institutions in India including the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), along with Centers of Research Excellence such as Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), and Y. R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRGCARE) in India; Erasmus Medical Centre in The Netherlands, and Karolinska Institute in Sweden.