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Botswana launch of AMBITION-cm project on HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis
Almost twenty per cent of HIV-related deaths are directly attributable to cryptococcal meningitis (CM). The AMBITION-cm project was developed to evaluate a new treatment course…
Professor Alimuddin Zumla honoured for services to public health
Professor Alimuddin Zumla, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health at University College London was honoured in the United Kingdom for services to public health…
Mundo Sano joins forces with EDCTP to fund research on neglected infectious diseases
On 16 June 2017, the Mundo Sano Foundation and the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) created a partnership to leverage research funding…
Leprosy Research Initiative and EDCTP in partnership to boost leprosy research
The Leprosy Research Initiative (LRI) and EDCTP created a partnership to boost leprosy-related research. They aim to leverage resources and pool funds to support clinical…
International Clinical Trials Day 2017: trials and results
Ahead of International Clinical Trials Awareness Day 2017, an important joint statement was released by international funders of clinical research to further protect the integrity…
Funding research and innovation to help end malaria
The fight against malaria has seen a decade of remarkable success and progress. It remains, however, a threat to half of the world’s population with…
World TB day 2017: closing the gaps to end tuberculosis
Ending the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030 is one of the health targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. Although TB incidence has fallen by an…
PredictTB project launched: biomarkers to predict TB treatment duration
A new EDCTP-funded project was launched at the Tygerberg Campus of Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa, on 16 and 17 March 2017. EDCTP…
PanACEA kicks off new clinical trials programme for TB-drug evaluation
The EDCTP-funded PanACEA consortium (Pan-African Consortium for the Evaluation of Antituberculosis Antibiotics) who were recently awarded their second EDCTP grant worth almost € 11.4 million…
UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health hosted meeting on value of EDCTP
The meeting on EDCTP as ‘African-European partnership for global health benefit’ took place on 27 February 2017 at the Houses of Parliament in London, United…
PredART trial: prednisone reduces risk of TB-IRIS in HIV-infected patients by 30%
Results of the EDCTP-funded PredART clinical trial, led by Dr Graeme Meintjes, University of Cape Town, South Africa were presented at the 2017 Conference on…
Switzerland fully associated to Horizon 2020 per 1 January 2017
Switzerland became an Associated Country for the full Horizon 2020 programme as of 1 January 2017. Consequently, Switzerland has regained the possibility to fully participate in the…
World AIDS day 2016: EDCTP’s strategy for funding research on HIV
According to the AIDS by numbers 2016 report from UNAIDS, huge progress has been made in the fight against HIV since 2000, and millions of…
Stakeholder meeting reports published: diarrhoeal diseases and lower respiratory tract infections
EDCTP published two reports of the stakeholder meetings on diarrhoeal diseases and lower respiratory tract infections, respectively. The meetings for these fields added to our…
Professor Fred Newton Binka receives prestigious Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Award
The EDCTP Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize was given to Professor Fred Newton Binka in recognition of his outstanding achievements in advancing health research and capacity…