Development of research capability in Ethiopia: the Ethio-Netherlands AIDS research project (ENARP): 1994-2002, achievements, scientific findings and project goals.

In 1992, HIV/AIDS researchers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, were invited to work in partnership with researchers in Ethiopia to build an HIV/AIDS research infrastructure in Addis Ababa. This project, which began in 1994, was envisioned to contribute meaningfully to fighting the HIV pandemic in the decades to come. Its immediate objective was to establish an HIV research laboratory to serve international partnerships pursuing HIV vaccine …