1 – Working groups

The Arbo-France network has set up four working groups:

  • Arbovirus Epidemic Preparedness and Response WG to draw up recommendations on the measures to be implemented in response to different emergence scenarios.
  • Innovative Surveillance WG:
    A space for reflection and information exchange on innovative technological and experimental aspects in the field of arbovirus surveillance, in order to support the development of research projects.
  • Dengue and Chikungunya Vaccination WG:
    Development of a framework program for vaccination against infection by these two viruses in the French Overseas Territories (TUM).

 

2 – Funded projects

  • Preparation for the Use of a Dengue Vaccine in the French Caribbean (Martinique and Guadeloupe) – REACTing Funding

    Role of Prior Zika Virus Infection in the Occurrence of Severe Dengue or Dengue with Warning Signs in Martinique During the 2019–2020 Epidemic –  REACTing Funding

  • Factors associated with severe dengue cases in Martinique – REACTing funding
  • Seroprevalence of dengue in children in the West Indies – funded by APIDOM, REACTing and Santé Publique France
  • Mother-to-child Chikungunya infection in Jayavarman VII – ANRS funding
  • Circulation of arboviruses WN and Usutu in Nouvelle Aquitaine – ANRS funding
  • Seroprevalence survey among blood donors – EFS funding
  • Assessment of safety and immunogenicity of dengue vaccination in sickle-cell patients (Sickle-Arbo) – PHRC funding
  • Seroprevalence of TBE in France: an observational prospective study – Pfizer funding
  • Call for Emergence projects – low- and middle-income countries (PRFI) 2022: ANRS funding
    • Surveillance and control of Arboviruses in Burkina Faso using a global approach – MURAZ Center Research Institute Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina Faso
    • Arboviruses (re)emerging in island environments in Oceania: new perspectives for risk management in the post-COVID era – Vector-borne infectious diseases research laboratory Institut Louis Malardé Papeete French Polynesia
    • Determination of the circulation of viruses with epidemic potential in wastewater from Guinea, a West African country – Guinea Pasteur Institute, Conakry Guinea
  • PEPR MIE 2023 call for projects : 3 projects on arboviruses – ANRS MIE funding
  • Arbo-France 2022 thesis grants : 2 theses on arboviruses – ANRS MIE funding
  • Arbo-France 2023 thesis grants : 3 theses on arboviruses – ANRS MIE funding
  • Arbo-France 2024 thesis grants : 3 theses to be funded by ANRS MIE

3 – Scientific meetings

– Working group meetings:

January 18, 2021: West Nile Virus and Usutu scientific meeting – Link Program
Open scientific webmeetingwhich aim is to identify human and animal health surveillance and research needs relating to West Nile and Usutu viruses.

Please contact contact@arbofrance to participate

– Expert Panel Meetings:

January 8, 2020: FHL1 a major host factor in chikungunya virus infection

– Annual Scientific Meetings:

September 30 – October 1, 2019: First meeting at the Institut Pasteur in Paris – Link program

4 – Inventory of research teams (in progress)

Actualités & évènements

 

Collaborating Institutions