Fellows
Aurélie Kifack Zetang
ACP-HIV/TB Fellowship Recipient
Centre de Recherche sur les Maladies Emergentes et Reemergentes (CREMER)/Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Etudes des Plantes Médicinales (IMPM)
Molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 non-M variants and HIV-1 M+O dual infections among HIV positive patients in Cameroon
Aurélie Kifack Zetang is an intern at the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun. She qualified as a medical analysis technician there before going on to study for a Masters degree in biochemistry, with an option in public health biotechnology. Her second Masters is in public health with a community health option. The current project she is working on is on molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 non-M variants and HIV-1 M+O dual infections among HIV positive patients in Cameroon. Subsequently, she and her team go out into the community to meet the partners of various patients, and with their consent take samples from them and carry out tests to find out if they are infected, and if so, to see if they have the same type, group, dual infection and/or recombinant forms. To better assess the frequency of detection of these recombinants, means determining what is at stake in terms of public health.