Fellows
Aurélie Kifack Zetang
ACP-HIV/TB Fellowship Recipient
Centre de Recherche en Maladies Émergentes et Réémergentes (CREMER)/Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Études des Plantes Médicinales (IMPM), Yaoundé, Cameroon
Aurélie Kifack Zetang is an intern at the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun. She first trained as a medical analysis technician at the same institution and later completed a master’s degree in Biochemistry, specialising in Public Health Biotechnology, followed by a second master’s degree in Public Health with a community health focus.
Her current research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 non-M variants and HIV-1 M+O dual infections among HIV-positive patients in Cameroon. As part of her work, she and her team conduct community-based field activities, including partner tracing and sample collection with informed consent, to assess infection status and determine HIV group types, dual infections, and recombinant forms.
Her research aims to better understand the frequency and distribution of HIV recombinants and to clarify their implications for public health in Cameroon.