Together for Girls and LSTHM co-created a course to support early career researchers in LMICs to conduct research with VACS data and communicate their findings to policymakers in their respective countries.

Development work for an evaluation of a complex intervention to increase uptake of vaccinations in pregnancy among socio-economically and ethnically diverse populations.

The purpose of VITALITY trial is to establish whether supplementation with vitamin D and calcium optimises musculoskeletal health among peripubertal children with HIV in Zimbabwe and Zambia.  

This is the first RCT to investigate this intervention to improve bone health in HIV children. 

PI: Prof Rashida Ferrand (LSHTM/ Biomedical Research & Training Institute (BRTI), Harare)

Funder: EDCTP