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This indexes West Africa as a region, which generally includes the 16 countries:

  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cape Verde
  • The Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Ivory Coast
  • Liberia
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Niger
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo

Please refer to the above pages for specific nations.

 

Found 8 search result(s) for "West Africa".

Page: colobus monkeys, black-and-white colobus (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... colobus monkeys are a genus of eight species of Old World Monkeys, native to Central and West Africa. As per their common name, most colobus monkeys have black and white coloration ...
Jan 24, 2021
Page: African green monkeys, vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus) (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... term "green monkey" refers specifically to the species Chlorocebus sabaeus, which is native to West Africa, while "vervet monkey" refers specifically to the species Chlorocebus pygerythrus, which is native ... Chlorocebus is a genus of six species ...
Jan 22, 2021
Page: 1.7 Max Essex — From Feline Leukemia Virus to AIDS in Africa (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... patients. This is West African AIDS patients. United States AIDS patients here, West African AIDS patients. What you see is the West African AIDS patients reacted much better with the envelope of the monkey virus than they did
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 4.2 Martine Peeters — On the Road to HIV: Primate Lentiviruses (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... example, the work we did with Beatrice, where she focused on sampling in East Africa for chimpanzees and gorillas. We focused on West Central Africa and the fact that it is easier to collect fecal samples from apes than from monkeys
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 2.3 Mark Harrington — The Importance of Activism to the US Response (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... rapidly enough to an emerging disaster. It was only once the communities were fully involved in West Africa that the Ebola outbreak was able to be brought under control. Thanks to NIH and others were ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 2.5 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi — Discovery of HIV (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... also, it was evidences of antibodies to SIV 00:22:30 or STLV3 at that time in people in West Africa and the subsequent isolation of what we know today as HIV2 in African, West African patients.  Characterization of the genome of the virus, that was done between 1984, 1985. (17 ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 1.4 Robin Weiss — Retrovirus History and Early Searches for Human Retroviruses (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... does immortalize CD4 cells in vitro, it has transforming properties, and it's prevalent in the West Indies, because the African West Indians had brought the virus with them from Africa. It was also found in Japan, and there was a very interesting paper three years before ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 9.1 Jon Cohen — Responding to AIDS: A Journalist's View (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... deadly drives many stories including Zika, microcephaly, why is Ebola exploding in West Africa—Those are things that attract a lot of attention. This is the most famous scientific press conference ... New York, it has one of the most progressive plans to end an epidemic, South ...
Apr 27, 2021

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