US embassy cable - 05PRETORIA4598

UNCLAS PRETORIA 004598 
 
SIPDIS 
 
HHS PHS WASHDC 
CDC ATLANTA GA 
 
DEPT FOR S/GAC, AF/S, AF/EPS, OES, PCI AND IO/T 
HHS/PHS FOR OFFICE OF GLOBAL HEALTH AFFAIRS FOR 
SA-JONES 
HHS/NIH/FIC FOR HFRANCIS 
CDC FOR GLOBAL HEALTH OFFICE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID, PREL, TBIO, OSCI, KHIV, KSCA, SF 
SUBJECT: POST APPROVAL OF PROPOSED RESEARCH 
PROJECT NO. AI067073-01A1 INVOLVING A FOREIGN 
INSTITUTION. 
 
REF: STATE 210291 
 
1.Post welcomes award of subject project No. 
AI067073-01A1 involving a foreign institution. 
Post notes that foreign grantee institution 
(South Africa) is Doris Duke Medical Research 
Institute, Durban, with Photini Kiepiela as 
Foreign Principal Investigator.  Post notes that 
investigators have obtained human subjects 
assurance identification No. FWA00000678. 
 
2.  Proposed award is for a research project 
entitled Pathogenesis of Clade C HIV 
V 
Infection.  The scientific objectives of this 
project, as outlined in reftel, are important to 
South Africa.  Post would appreciate receiving a 
summary of the project application for its 
records.  This, as well as research results, 
should be conveyed to Health Attache, Gray 
Handley, U.S. Embassy Pretoria; office phone 
[27] (12) 431-4025.  Cellular phone [27] 84-950- 
0616. 
 
3.It is anticipated that foreign funding 
under this grant will be (All funding to South 
Africa): FY 2006, USD 323,082; FY 2007, USD 
332,775; FY 2008, USD 342,757; FY 2009, USD 
353,041; FY 2010, USD363,633. 
 
4.As project implementation proceeds, Post 
would appreciate receiving copies of annual 
progress reports prepared by investigators and 
submitted to Embassy Health Attaches office. 
 
TEITELBAUM 
AUM