Dr Meg Doherty, Director of WHO's Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Programmes (WHO/HHS), and Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Director of ANRS | Emerging infectious diseases, signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at supporting and strengthening their collaboration in research and knowledge sharing to support global health policy development and implementation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The signature took place on 27 June 2022, in Paris, during the annual meeting of the international network of the ANRS | Emerging infectious diseases.

To strengthen the technical and strategic collaboration, WHO and the ANRS | Emerging Infectious Diseases signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at improving the scientific and technical cooperation between the 2 institutions in the area of HIV, hepatitis and STIs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), notably in west and central African countries, in the following overarching areas: