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Project SIDA was a scientific organization to study AIDS in Africa.

History
Headquartered in Kinshasa, Zaire, Project SIDA was designed as a collaboration between foreign scientists with experience studying epidemics and local scientists familiar with the local culture and customs. Initiated in 1984, with funding from the U.S. [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the direction of Jonathan Mann, Project SIDA was based at Mama Yemo hospital in Kinshasa.

Project SIDA was terminated in 1991 due to civil war in Zaire.

Overview of Zaire and AIDS
Early "Tropical Medicine" in Congo-Zaire

First recorded cases

Popular representations

Government Officials and AIDS

Conception
Piot, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp

James Curran, CDC

Thomas Quinn NIAID

Kanienca Muanmbo, head of the National Institute of Biomedical Research

Bila Kapita

Mama Yemo Hospital

Budget and Operations
- money contributed

supplies mentions (20 landcruisers)

employment>

Leadership and Contributors
(conception section?)

- list of directors

- list of phsyicians involved

Public Health Interventions
Condom Distribution Program, John Loftin

International Presence (?)
1985 First International Conference on AIDS, Atlanta

1985 WHO Workshop on AIDS in Africa, Bangui, Central African Republic

Scientific outcomes
Project SIDA operated successfully and generated over a thousand scientific abstracts. In particular, Project SIDA scientists were among the first to document heterosexual transmission of AIDS and the existence of AIDS outside of developed countries. Over the course of its operations, Projet SIDA produced 120 publications and presented over 1000 abstracts at scientific conferences. Project SIDA also developed and supported local scientists and scientific infrastructure, in contrast to many scientists from the developed world who collected samples in Africa but did not attempt to train local staff. In addition to Mann, prominent scientists involved with Project SIDA include Joseph McCormick and Peter Piot.

- Add Lancet 1984 article