• Contributing to equality in science by practising inclusive behaviours

  • Strengthening partner institutions for intellectual and financial independence through strong governance structures

  • Delivering outstanding scientific mentorship within cutting-edge TB and HIV research programmes

  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary experts from basic and translational, to clinical and social scientists

  • Offering diverse and innovative knowledge and skills-building short courses

  • Training the next generation of scientific leaders in Africa

  • Exchanging knowledge with local communities to ensure meaningful translational research and public health

  • Facilitating visibility of African scientists

  • Co-creating messages with sectors of the public to dispel mass information and inform research

  • Enhancing research on HIV, TB and associated morbidities

We are a Sub-Saharan African network of African-led research in HIV (particularly acute HIV (AHI)) and Tuberculosis (TB) infection

We aim to shape and drive locally relevant basic, clinical and translational research in Africa.

SANTHE is an Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) flagship programme funded by the Science for Africa Foundation through the DELTAS Africa programme; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Gilead Sciences Inc.; and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.