Lilian Njagi, cohort 9, graduate from the University of Nairobi, attended the second EU-Africa PerMed summer school that took place from May 21-23, 2024, at the KCB Leadership Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. During the workshop, she presented on ‘HIV and TB under a Personalised Medicine point of view’, where she shed light on the burden and current management of TB and HIV in Kenya, including TB preventive therapy. This treatment targets high-risk populations with HIV, diabetes, and household contacts. “What is needed is having a mixed workshop where policymakers and big funders hear presentations like yours to convince them that it is not only non-communicable diseases but also communicable diseases that need funding for personalized medicine, and so we might contact you if we have the opportunity to one of our policy-oriented workshops because your presentation was very clear,” said Erika Sela the EU-Africa PerMed coordinator. Lilian is a Clinical Research Scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Centre for Respiratory Disease Research, with interests in Tuberculosis/HIV co-infection research looking at novel solutions to monitoring the treatment of latent TB to improve outcomes, including assessing the role of immune response and pharmacogenetics.

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  • Erika Sela

    Reply May 29, 2024 11:51 am

    My contratulations to Dr. Lilian Njagi for a wonderful presentation during the EU-Africa PerMed summer school and for helping us understand the importance of knowing about the genetic background of individiduals and populations to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases such as HIV and TB. Thank you!

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