The East Africa International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA-EA) is one of seven regional data centers funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to provide a rich resource for globally diverse HIV/AIDS data. Indiana University School of Medicine leads the East Africa region in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco (US), Columbia University (US), University of California Riverside (US), Brown University (US), Mt. Sinai (US), Moi University (Kenya), Mbarara University (Uganda), the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) and the Kisesa Health Centre (Tanzania). Each of the four partner countries has a coordinator and several programs and sites that participate.
East Africa International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS
Each region in the IeDEA consortium collaborates with clinical sites to identify and define key variables, harmonize and effectively analyze the data to generate large datasets. These data have been merged across regions to address research questions related to the impact of the global ART rollout on HIV-related clinical outcomes and helped inform global agencies such as WHO and UNAIDS.
IeDEA-EA maintains summary data visualizations to help monitor key outcomes and cohort characteristics within the East Africa region.
Advancing Long-Term HIV Care and Treatment Strategies
The primary goal of the IeDEA-EA consortium is the provision of answers to questions that clinicians, programs, governments and international organizations consider central to the evolution and sustainability of their long term HIV care and treatment strategies. To achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets, the consortium is exploring a central hypothesis that retention in the HIV care cascade and treatment outcomes are influenced by patient-level developmental and behavioral factors in addition to factors within the ambient health care environment. Over the next five years IeDEA East Africa will continue to utilize its expertise to identify and address barriers to optimal patient and program outcomes.
Offering Expertise in Data Management and Research
The East African Regional Data Center houses expertise in merging, sharing and analyzing routine data collected within HIV care and treatment programs as well as proficiency in the design, conduct and analysis of implementation research.
IeDEA Data Exchange Standard (IeDEA DES) is a common data model for sharing observational HIV data.
Leading a Worldwide Partnership
With leadership from IU School of Medicine and its faculty, IeDEA East Africa has partners in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and North America.IeDEA International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS
IeDEA is an international research consortium established in 2006 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to provide a rich resource for globally diverse HIV/AIDS data.
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Sponsors
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat and ultimately prevent infectious immunologic and allergic diseases.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood disorders and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives.
The mission of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the effects of alcohol on health and well-being, and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Children’s Health and Development (NICHD) was established to investigate the broad aspects of human development as a means of understanding developmental disabilities, including mental retardation and the events that occur during pregnancy.
The mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is to conduct and support medical research and research training and to disseminate science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases, to improve people’s health and quality of life.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is transforming understanding and treatment of mental illness through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and care.
Fogarty International Center (FIC) is dedicated to advancing the NIH mission by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs.
Announcing the inaugural trainees for the Fogarty-IeDEA Mentorship Program (FIMP)
In collaboration with the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the US National Institutes of Health, six IeDEA regions working in low- and middle-income countries have created training opportunities for participants of FIC D43 HIV research and training programs, as well as for IeDEA regional investigators.
The FIMP is designed to help trainees develop skills in study design, data management, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of research involving large HIV clinical databases generated within IeDEA. As part of the FIMP, mentees will have access to IeDEA regional data for analyses that are conducted under the supervision of their respective IeDEA region.
East Africa
- Allan Kendagor Kimaina (Kenya)
- Dorean Nabukalu (Uganda)
Southern Africa
- Jabulani Ncayiyana (South Africa)
- Tammy Phillips (South Africa)
West Africa
- Désire Lucien Dahourou (Burkina Faso)
- Aminu Ababa Yusuf (Nigeria)
Asia-Pacific
- Dyna Khuon (Cambodia)
- Johanna Beulah Tria Sornillo (Philippines)
Central Africa
- Charles Ingabire (Rwanda)
- Eric Perfura (Cameroon)
CCASAnet
- Yanink Caro-Vega (Mexico)
