The DESTINE project will bring together the Universities of Bristol and Dundee and NHS Tayside with several medical schools and other key institutions in Ethiopia. The team will investigate the extent of Hepatitis C (HCV) infection in the country using epidemiological and modelling techniques. They will then design care based around treatment pathways created in the UK but moulded to suit the Ethiopian context.
The collaboration will be led by John Dillon, Professor of Hepatology and Gastroenterology at the University of Dundee and consultant hepatologist at NHS Tayside. He and his colleagues previously carried out the pioneering work that led to Tayside becoming a world leader in HCV elimination.