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26 February 2015

PanACEA MAMS-TB-01 trial: ‘high-dose rifampicin may help shorten TB treatment’

The MAMS-TB-01 trial enrolled 365 patients from 7 sites in Tanzania and South Africa in only 11 months. It is the first of several TB…

28 January 2015

Calls for Proposals: ‘Strategic projects with major cofunding’ and ‘Improved treatment and clinical management of poverty-related diseases’

Today, EDCTP published two new calls for proposals under its second programme. The call Strategic projects with major cofunding aims to provide cofunding to strategically…

19 December 2014

EC Commissioner Carlos Moedas and Gulbenkian Foundation sign collaboration memorandum

This coincides with the prepublication today of an EDCTP 2015 Call for proposals aimed at strengthening the ethics and regulatory capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. This call will be a…

19 December 2014

Preannouncement of 2015 Calls for Proposals

The purpose of this forthcoming call for proposals is to provide funding to projects that aim to evaluate new or significantly improved drugs or drug…

02 December 2014

New Call for Proposals: Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases

The purpose of this call is to invest in projects aiming to validate the clinical performance and/or implementation of new or improved diagnostic tools and…

02 December 2014

New EDCTP programme celebrated in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 December 2014

A high-level event in Cape Town, South Africa will mark the launch of the second programme of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership…

01 December 2014

New EDCTP programme celebrated in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 December 2014

The meeting will offer a full day of reflection and discussion on overarching topics regarding the new programme. Opening addresses will be delivered by: Naledi…

01 December 2014

World Aids Day 2014: second EDCTP programme starts December 2, 2014

EDCTP2 will be inaugurated tomorrow at a high-level meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. It will bring together public and private funders, the pharmaceutical industry…

17 November 2014

Forum Proceedings and Forum video published

The Proceedings of the Seventh EDCTP Forum, held in Berlin, Germany from 30 June to 2 July 2014, are published on the EDCTP website today.…

06 November 2014

Scholarships for MSc programma in vaccinology in Siena, Italy

The University of Siena Medical School, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health (NVGH), and the ADITEC (Advanced Immunization Technologies) programme invite…

31 October 2014

EDCTP and TDR offer first joint Clinical R&D Fellowships

A total of 25 fellowships is available for this call; 20 product development organisations have offered to host fellows. The host organisations will train individuals…

23 October 2014

New drug combination could improve adherence to tuberculosis treatment

A novel combination of the drugs rifapentine and moxifloxacin can reduce the number of tablets to be taken by patients from 360 to 140 (administered…

24 September 2014

Mefloquine not recommended as alternative drug for malaria prevention treatment in pregnancy

The results of two large randomised controlled trials conducted in Africa that tested mefloquine, a drug for malaria prevention in HIV-negative and HIV-positive pregnant women,…

23 September 2014

Proceedings of the EDCTP stakeholder meeting on capacity development published

The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) has published its report of the Stakeholder meeting on capacity development today. The meeting was held…