IAVI has announced a new award from the German government to help support the late-stage development of the promising TB vaccine candidate, MTBVAC. The German…
Breastmilk optimises child survival in low- and middle income high HIV prevalence settings. However, breastmilk transmission of HIV continues to contribute to residual HIV mother-to-child…
On 20-21 April 2023, the Leprosy Research Initiative (LRI) held its Spring Meeting in Breukelen, the Netherlands. This in-person event brought together over 80 attendees…
The East African Point of Care HIV Viral Load (EAPoC-VL) project held its second annual general scientific meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on 1011 May 2023,…
The GELA (Global Evidence – Local Adaptation) consortium is coordinated by Dr Tamara Kredo at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), South Africa, with…
The prevention of recurrence of tuberculosis (POR TB) trial has been completed with a total of 831 participants from six clinical trial sites in South…
The INTEGRATION consortium held its 1st annual investigators meeting on 6 and 7 March 2023 both in person in Rome, Italy, and virtually. The study…
The PYRAPREG study held its investigators’ meeting on 9-10 March 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The study is a phase III open-label, multicentre, randomized, non-inferiority…
The four EDCTP-funded late-stage TB vaccine development projects: POR TB Consortium, priMe and MTBVAC-Newborns Phase 2a and MTBVACN3, meet on a regular basis to exchange…
In 2021, ten consortia received funding to train 151 highly skilled epidemiologists and biostatisticians across sub-Saharan Africa. This highly anticipated training programme, dubbed as the…
In Cameroon the first ethics committee was created in 1987. However, its functioning was centralised and thus the ethical review process could not be adapted…
On 23 March 2023, the Eastern Africa Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR3) handed over the Research and Ethics Committee (REC) office at the Jinja Regional…
MIMVaC-Africa consortium held its second annual meeting on 17-18 January 2023. Thanks to the recent decrease in COVID-19 restrictions, this meeting was possible on a…
The Developing Paediatric Primaquine (DPP) consortium held its first Investigators Meeting at the Pharmaceutical Sciences Unit of the University of Bordeaux, France on 24-26 January…
We asked EDCTP Senior Fellow Plus Professor Samuel Wanji from University of Buea, Cameroon, how EDCTP funding is helping advance his research into the neglected…
The EDCTP-funded Multistage Malaria Vaccine Consortium (MMVC) met for their 2022 annual meeting in The Gambia in November 2022. There were exciting updates on the…
The third annual TB-CAPT consortium meeting was held virtually on 12 December 2022. Coordinated by FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, the rationale of the…
Integrated malaria prevention, which advocates the use of several malaria prevention methods holistically beyond insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying, is being explored to…
The EMPIRICAL consortium held its fourth annual meeting in Uganda on 15-16 November 2022 with the participation of the Executive Committee representatives, the independent members…
On 28 and 29 November 2022, Mr Abdoulie Barry, Director of Finance and Administration, Dr Pauline Beattie, Operations Manager, and Dr Thomas Nyirenda, Strategic Partnerships…
On 14-15 November 2022, Mr Abdoulie Barry, Director of Finance and Administration, and Dr Pauline Beattie, Operations Manager carried out a review of three EDCTP…
The DIAGMAL consortium held its first face-to-face investigators’ meeting in Mombasa, Kenya on 24 and 25 October 2022. The main objective of the DIAGMAL project…
Dr David Kateete, a molecular biologist and EDCTP Career Development fellow from Uganda, has developed clinical metagenomic tools with Dr Adrian Muwonge, a collaborator in…
The Trials of Excellence in Southern Africa (TESA III) Regional Network of Excellence hosted the first General Assembly in Luanda, Angola on 17 and 18…
Guest article from the Gitaka Lab There remains a huge human resource deficit in Africa, with many young African scientists moving to high-income countries for…
The Prevention of Tuberculosis Recurrence Consortium (POR TB) held its annual meeting virtually on 15 November 2022. The meeting included presentations from work package leaders…
Recruitment for the large-scale community TB TRIAGE+ trial, with 20,000 participants, started in September 2022 in sites in Lesotho and South Africa. The TB TRIAGE…
The second consortium meeting of the EDCTP-funded SIMBLE project took place, like last year, in hybrid format. The SIMBLE project is a clinical diagnostic trial…
The University of Nairobi (UoN) in partnership with the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) received a grant…
CIDRZ TEAM, Community volunteers and Stakeholders in Lukanga Swamps at the dissemination meeting conducted in October 2021. In cholera-endemic areas, the periodicity of cholera outbreaks…