@article{e0137d6b54fd4df9a873af591e453c6a,
title = "A report on the research leadership and scientific writing training organized in yaounde by the Clinical Research Education, Networking and Consultancy (CRENC) and the IeDEA-Cameroon team",
abstract = "Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of individuals leaving with HIV/AIDS. However, much is still unknown as regards HIV/AIDS treatment outcomes in resource-constrained settings. The Cameroon Central Africa International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS-Cameroon (Cameroon CA-IeDEA) collaboration is a unique opportunity to explore long-term outcomes from a large HIV cohort and generate massive data that can show trends, inform HIV care and provide insight on the way forward. Given the lack of research capacity in the country, the need for high impact training that can leverage Cameroon CA-IeDEA has never been more acute.",
keywords = "IeDEA, Leadership, Scientific writing, Training",
author = "Anastase Dzudie and Epie Njume and Roger Ajeh and Yone-Pefura, {Eric Walter} and Bonghaseh Divine and Adebola Adedimeji and Kathryn Anastos",
note = "Funding Information: Scientific productivity and research in Africa for Africa is limited and unequally distributed across the continent. Capacity strengthening, developing skills in scientific writing [1, 2] and leadership training [3], have been postulated to mitigate this trend. It is on this premise that the Clinical Research Education, Networking and Consultancy (CRENC) through Dr. Anastase Dzudie (Principal investigator (PI) for the Cameroon CA-IeDEA project), organised this two-day training on Leadership and Scientific Writing under the auspices of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine through its tenured Professors Kathryn Anastos and Adebola Adedimeji (PI and associate PI of the Central African Region IeDEA project respectively). The International Epidemiologic Database to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) research study is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The CA-IeDEA study is part of the IeDEA global research consortium, involving seven regions: West, East, Central and Southern Africa; South and North America; and Asia and Pacific. The CA-IeDEA is funded through Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. The overall goal of the IeDEA study is to use secondary clinical, laboratory and epidemiologic data from HIV-infected patients in various regions to answer HIV/AIDS and other related co-morbidities research questions that cannot be answered with existing individual cohorts in each country. The IeDEA research consortium makes it possible to generalize study findings to wider settings and populations, with the goal of improving HIV care across countries in the world. The Cameroon IeDEA study obtained its first ethical clearance from the Cameroon National Ethics Committee in March 2013 under the contract research organisation (CRO) Research for Development International (R4DI). The implementation of the study was transferred from R4DI to the current CRO-CRENC in 2016.",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "2",
doi = "10.11604/pamj.2018.29.195.14593",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
journal = "Pan African Medical Journal",
issn = "1937-8688",
publisher = "Pan African Medical Journal",
}