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RESEARCH: Stopping HIV from where it starts

Dr. Marianne Mureithi, from the University of Nairobi is part of a team of researchers carrying out study on mucosal immune responses to HIV in Kenya.

Funding and effort has gone into understanding the body’s immune response to HIV, with scientific investigations of the blood. Now a team of UoN researchers KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research (KAVI-ICR) at the University of Nairobi has been awarded two research grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Swedish Research Foundation to investigate the body’s defense but this time studying the mucosal tissues of sexual organs.

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