| Ref No | GB 0809 Piot/2/1/5 |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Title | Correspondence |
| Date | 1988 |
| Description | Correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to AIDS research. Subjects of the correspondence include research on sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases in collaborative project with the University of Nairobi; work relating to Projet SIDA; research undertaken on STDs and AIDS in Uganda, led by Dr Seth Berkley and the Ebola-virus outbreak in Uganda in 1976. Correspondees include: Dr Jim Curran, Centers for Disease Control; Dr Manuel Carballo, Special Programme on AIDS, WHO; Dr Robin Ryder, Director of Projet SIDA; Dr Ian Munro, Editor of the Lancet; Professor Isaac Wamola, Head of Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Nairobi; Dr Jonathan Mann, Director of the Global Programme on AIDS, WHO; Dr William Close and Sir Donald Acheson.
File also includes typescript articles such as: article entitled ‘Heterosexually Acquired HIV Infection in the United States in ‘Current Topics on AIDS Vol. 2 “Epidemiology of Heterosexual Spread of HIV” by P Piot, M Laga, R Ryder, Mary E Chamberland and “Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission in a Ugandan University Population’ by Dr Seth Berkley, Dr H G K Rwabugahya; Dr B George Kirya; Dr Donald Sutherland and Dr Robert Downing and a report entitled ‘Verstag verblijf Zuid Afrika- 24 April-06 Mei 1988- typescript diary entries for this period. |
| AccessStatus | Open (part) |
| Language | Dutch; English; French |
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| DS/UK/36 | Curran; James "Jim" W; epidemiologist | |
| DS/UK/37 | Carballo; Manuel (1941-); epidemiologist | 1941- |
| DS/UK/35 | Ryder; Robert (Robin) J | |
| DS/UK/32 | Mann; Jonathan (1947-1998); physician and adminstrator | 1947-1998 |
| DS/UK/38 | Close; William Taliaferro (1924-2009); surgeon | 1924-2009 |
| DS/UK/39 | Acheson; Sir; Donald (Ernest Donald) (1926-2010); physician and epidemiologist | 1926-2010 |