Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA, which means “to cure an infection” in Swahili) is an Africa-led, wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary research programme that explores and draws lessons from the ways that different African health systems tackle infectious diseases. Image Through TIBA, the University of Edinburgh is working in partnerships with researchers from Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe to generate new knowledge and inform comparative analyses of health systems. TIBA is a global health research partnership between research institutes in nine African countries and the University of Edinburgh in the UK. TIBA aims to harness our partners’ expertise and technical capabilities in biomedical and social sciences to reduce the burden and threat of infectious diseases in Africa. Professor Mark WoolhouseTIBA director, University of Edinburgh TIBA's aims Improve the diagnosis and surveillance of infectious diseases in resource-poor settings. Improve the deployment of existing drug treatments and enhance local capacity to develop new ones. Improve the deployment of existing vaccines and enhance local capacity to develop new ones. Improve the management of endemic and epidemic infectious diseases by: Strengthening health systems, governance and ethics Improving policy development and implementation Enhancing capacity to respond to infectious disease emergencies Image The TIBA group Image Find out more on the TIBA website Further links Follow TIBA's work on Twitter Contact TIBA by email This article was published on 2024-08-28
