The project aims to critically examine, unpack and contextualize the ethical implications of this rapidly growing new research area by directly engaging communities living in Nairobi in a critical knowledge exchange process with members of our study team.
Objectives
- To form an advisory group of community health activists who will learn about and interrogate phylogenetic research through meetings and discussions with basic and social scientists.
- To co-design and pilot a community-based HIV phylogenetic study that combines molecular network data with community knowledge to identify emergent infection clusters in a sample of population-dense spots.
- To critically assess and identify the emergent ethical issues, advantages and disadvantages of the community-led pilot project.
Project Initiated 2022
The study started in November 2022 and will continue for two years and will support activities that focus on and are led by the women and men in the community.
Partnerships
PHDA and the University of Manitoba are collaborating with community-based organizations working with female sex workers (FSW) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Nairobi through the CIPHR project with funding support from New Frontiers in Research Fund, Canada.