The International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) is an international research consortium established in 2006 by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to identify and address high-priority HIV/AIDS research questions. As part on this initiative, the IeDEA West Africa collaboration involves a consortium of HIV researchers, epidemiologist and clinicians in eight countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo.