Research

Our agency supports research into HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases through funding, evaluation, research coordination and scientific facilitation.

Last updated on 13 November 2024

Diseases and pathogens

Arboviruses

Arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) are transmitted to humans and/or other vertebrates by certain types of blood-feeding arthropods (mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies and midges). They transmit the pathogen during their blood meal, after having bitten an infected person or animal. Dengue, Zika and…

Mpox

Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a disease that has been circulating for decades in West and Central Africa.

COVID-19

Having appeared in Wuhan, central China, in December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spread throughout the world very quickly.

Viral haemorrhagic fevers

Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) include various diseases (Ebola, Lassa fever, Marburg fever, Crimean-Congo fever, etc)

Viral hepatitis

Viral hepatitis is inflammation of the liver caused by any of the viruses A, B, C, D and E

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

The majority of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are caused by bacteria or parasites.

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. Every day, around 28 000 people contract it and over 4 100 people die from it, according to the WHO.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, affects around 38 million people worldwide, according to the WHO.

Avian influenza A (H5N1)

Avian influenza, also known as bird flu or formerly fowl plague, caused by A strains of the influenza virus, is an infectious disease affecting wild and domestic birds.

Oropouche

Oropouche virus disease is an arboviral disease actively circulating in several regions of Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Research projects

Here are a few examples of the research projects we fund. More information about our clinical research projects involving the storage of samples hosted in our biobank can be found in Data and samples.

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new research projects funded and/or sponsored by our agency in 2023

*This section does not include an exhaustive list of the research projects supported by ANRS MIE.