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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2007

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in February 2007

MSS 152R
Application: Surveillance and monitoring of HIV drug resistance (DR) in Hong Kong
Applicant: Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Objectives: The objectives of this programme are:-
  1. to develop a low-cost in-house HIV genotypic resistance assay;
  2. to assess the prevalence of HIV DR in individuals who are recently infected;
  3. to identify the pattern of genotypic mutations associated with HIV DR and correlate with the clinical, immunological and virological response to HAART regimen; and
  4. to develop a frame work for continued surveillance of transmission of HIV DR and clinical management patients habouring drug resistant virus.
Project Duration: April 2007 to March 2010
Contact Person: Dr. Patrick Li
Chief of Service
Department of Medicine
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
30 Gascoigne
Kowloon
Telephone: 2958 6731
Fax: 2215 1016