Hope for the eradication of HCV worldwide

摘要

The mission of the ANRS (the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and viral hepatitis) is to coordinate research, schedule appropriate events and meetings and fund projects on HIV and viral hepatitis. The Agency was created in 1988 to coordinate research on HIV/AIDS and as of 1 January 1999, the ANRS' mission was expanded to include the task of coordinating and funding hepatitis C basic science and public health research. This role was expanded at the beginning of 2005 to all research on hepatitis B and C. Within a relatively limited time-frame, the ANRS was able to transfer its acquired HIV experience and adapt its reactivity and flexibility to the issues presented by hepatitis B and C clinical and public health research. As such, since 1999, the ANRS has funded 32 therapeutic trials, 31 physiopathological clinical research projects, four cohorts and over 300 basic research projects in the field of viral hepatitis. To reinforce research in the Middle East and Africa in 2007, the Agency created the ANRS site in Egypt, dedicated to clinical and basic research on hepatitis C genotype 4 (HCV-4).