From independence, there was no law regulating human health research in Cameroon until 1987, when the text setting up the first ever ethics committee with…
In 2020, a consortium of researchers from Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Moçambique, Portugal, and Denmark were granted emergency funding to study the impact of the BCG…
On 12 October 2022, TB-CAPT the TB-CAPT consortium organised a session on scaling solutions for near point-of-care and point-of-care molecular testing services for tuberculosis (TB)…
The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) hosted a research ethics committee training with 16 participants from UVRI partner sites Jinja and Masaka Regional Referral Hospitals.…
Swiss TPH (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) in collaboration with UPC-PV (Unite de Pharmacologie Clinique et Pharmacovigilance), the Democratic Republic of the Congo together…
Photo credit: Zongo Saïdou Dr Charlie Compaoré, a PhD of the DiTECT-HAT project, successfully presented his PhD thesis at the Nasi Boni University in Bobo-Dioulasso,…
The PAMAfrica and SINDOFO consortia held a joint annual meeting at CERMEL’s in Lambaréné, Gabon, from 20 to 22 September 2022. PAMAfrica is led and…
The freeBILy consortium held its final annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain, from 19-21 September 2022. The main objective of the freeBILy project is to implement…
The Master in Field Epidemiology Training for Portuguese-speaking West African Countries (FETP-CV) held its formal launch ceremony on 4 October 2022. FETP-CV is one out…
Through Participating Member State Initiated Activity (PSIA) from the United Kingdom, EDCTP is funding the first GloPID-R activities in Africa. This one-year project builds on…
Researchers from the EDCTP2-funded Multi-Stage Malaria Vaccine Consortium (MMVC) have reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases a maintained high efficacy of a booster dose of the R21/Matrix-M…
Malawi has a highly successful HIV programme but counselling messages given during HIV testing show limited emphasis on “Undetectable = Untransmittable” or “U=U”. EDCTP Fellow…
Photo: Paul Martine Hayuma working at the AMBRELA, NIMR Tanga Centre Mr Paul Martine Hayuma is based at Tanga Medical Research Centre, National Institute for…
The Ministry of Health and Social Action of Senegal published the ‘Note de politique: la gestion de la vulnérabilité dans la revue éthique des protocoles…
The Trials of Excellence in Southern Africa (TESA) project coordinator, Dr Francisco Saúte, and project manager, Mr Rodrigues Matcheve, visited the EDCTP Africa Office on…
The Central Africa Clinical Research Network (CANTAM3) conducted a workshop on ‘Using Biostatistics as a tool in Epidemiological research and in handling micro-organisms’. The workshop…
Thanks to the Central Africa Clinical Research Network (CANTAM3) Career Development Fellowship programme, Dr Hugues C. Nana Djeunga (Research Scientist and Head of Molecular Parasitology…
In August 2022, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Ghana, in collaboration with the School of Public Health (SPH), Legon, organised the fifth clinical trials…
The SCINE-U project held a dissemination workshop in Kampala, Uganda on 26 August 2022. The SCINE-U project (Strengthening Community Structures in Clinical Research to Improve…
The TB-CAPT consortium successfully enrolled the first patients in two of its three clinical trials: the CORE trial, which aims at assessing the impact of…
The TriageTB project is assessing whether two tests – an innovative digital chest X-ray analysis system and a simple-to-use blood test – can provide a…
The SeroSelectTB Consortium held their first face-to-face meeting in Cape Town from 23-25 August 2022. The meeting included presentations from partners, a workshop addressing data…
The DIAGMAL project aims to evaluate the diagnostic performance of an innovative molecular platform for the sensitive diagnosis of malaria. This platform circumvents complex and…
The Royal Society Africa Prize 2022 was awarded to Professor Novel Njweipi Chegou for his work in the fields of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and…
The multidimensional, multiparameter phenotyping study (ImmStat@Cure, NCT04342715) within the PREV_PKDL project kicked-off in April 2022. This study aims at understanding the pathogenesis of post kala…
Community engagement is key to designing ethically and scientifically rigorous clinical trials involving human participants in low- and middle-income country settings. There is currently public…
The BERC-Luso team visited Angola from 26-29 July 2022. The visit included meetings with national authorities, a meeting with the Portuguese Ambassador to Angola, and a…
The Eastern Africa Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR3) held its third General Assembly and scientific meeting (hybrid) in Arusha, Tanzania on 10-11 August 2022. The…
The SouthErn Africa Regulatory for Clinical researcH (SEARCH) held its first scientific and General Assembly meeting at OR Tambo International Airport, South Africa, on 28-29…
The ultimate quiz winners with Prof. Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Director of NMIMR Following the positive feedback received from the Hepatitis screening activity organised in celebration of…