UNC Project - Malawi
More than twenty years ago, faculty from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were invited by the Malawian government to help the country develop STI treatment protocols. UNC has been working in Malawi ever since.
In 1999 UNC partnered with the Malawi Ministry of Health to establish the UNC Project−Malawi, a research, care and training facility in the capital city of Lilongwe.
Like much of sub-Saharan Africa, Malawi faces significant healthcare-related challenges. Malawi has only 2 physicians per 100,000 people, and the average life expectancy is 39 years. There is a high burden of HIV, malaria, TB and other infectious diseases straining the country’s limited healthcare infrastructure.
Mission
The mission of UNC Project−Malawi is to identify innovative, culturally acceptable, and relatively inexpensive methods of reducing the risk of HIV/STI and infectious disease transmission through research; strengthen the local research capacity through training and technology transfers; and improve patient care for the people of Malawi.
Research
HIV treatment and prevention
HIV vaccine development
Injury prevention
Malaria vaccine development
STI management
Clinical Care
Adult medicine
Antenatal
HIV counseling/testing
HIV/AIDS treatment
Internal medicine
Pediatrics
STI management
Training
Adult medicine
Epidemiology
Lab science
Medical geography
Nursing
Nutrition
Pediatrics
U.S. Contact: Irving Hoffman
