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Currently epidemiology coordinator in Niger, Bachir Assao will begin a PhD at the University of Florida in the fall of 2022. He will take advantage of this "break" in his projects in Niger to deepen his knowledge and especially in the future to better model and anticipate the epidemics that regularly occur in this country.

To answer this question, MSF and Epicentre conducted a study in Malawi in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, which following new WHO guidelines, changed its national policy on first-line HIV treatment in 2018. As a result, more than 750,000 people on antiretrovirals were transitioned to dolutegravir-based treatment without first being tested for viral load, with a rather positive outcome as epidemiologist Birgit Schramm explains.