Mbeya Medical Research Programme (Mbeya)

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One of the largest medical research projects in Tanzania.

Excerpt from the project website:
Mbeya Medical Research Programme is the partnership between the Mbeya Referal Hospital, the Mbeya regional medical office, the National institute for Medical Research, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at University of Munich, U.S. Military HIV Research Program.

MMRP has been a pioneer in research in Tanzania, studying epidemiology of HIV through cohorts like HISIS and CODE.

MMRP is also involved in social science studies trying to describe the risk behavior for HIV and STI in different study populations.
Also MMRP carries out innovative diagnostics tool research in fields of Malaria and Tuberculosis.