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Dr Mark Palmer takes over from Prof. Hannah Akuffo as EDCTP General Assembly Chairperson
Dr Mark Palmer (Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom) is the new Chairperson of the EEIG-EDCTP General Assembly (GA) as of January 2014. He takes…
TAM-TB: New sputum-independent diagnostic tool for tuberculosis in children
Today, The Lancet Infectious Diseases published the results of a sputum-independent assay developed in Tanzania that is able to diagnose active tuberculosis in children. The…
African Union and EDCTP sign Memorandum of Understanding to promote new paradigm in health
The African Union (AU) through the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)…
20 May 2010: International Clinical Trial Day
20 May 2010 is the sixth International Clinical Trials Day. On this day the clinical trial as a means of improving health and wellbeing is…
World TB Day 2024: Funding innovative research to end TB
On this World TB Day 2024, EDCTP reinforces its commitment to investing in tuberculosis (TB) research and development, an important part of the jigsaw to…
Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases – 2018
Expected number of grants: 6-12 Call identifier: RIA2018D
EDCTP COVID-19 emergency funding for twenty research projects
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented surge in scientific collaboration on research and development programs for prevention, diagnostic and therapeutic tools. In April 2020,…
Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases – 2018
The call supports projects to validate the clinical performance and/or implementation of new or improved diagnostic tools and technologies for the detection of any of…
Sixth EDCTP Forum: Proceedings and video available online
EDCTP published today the Proceedings of the Sixth EDCTP Forum as well as a short video on the event. The biennial Forum brings together EDCTP…
Developing a Global TB Vaccine R&D Roadmap
On 03 and 04 March 2020, a broad range of stakeholders with complementary expertise and experience in the fight to end tuberculosis (TB) will convene…
Fifteen “EPI-Biostat Fellows” start their Master’s training at the Kinshasa School of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH) has enrolled 15 students into its Master’s training programme “MSc EpiBiostat” coordinated by Prof. Dr Mashinda Kulimba Désiré.…
World HIV Vaccine Day 2020
World HIV Vaccine Day is a global call to support the efforts to develop vaccines to prevent HIV infection. Fortunately, immense progress has been made…
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The main objective of the EDCTP programme is to accelerate the development of new or improved medical interventions for poverty-related infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa.…
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Le partenariat Europe-Pays en développement pour les essais cliniques (EDCTP) soutient les projets couvrant plusieurs centres et associant les essais cliniques, le renforcement de la…
Coordination of TB vaccine funded research
EDCTP has awarded €51.18 million to support the development of vaccines for tuberculosis (TB) through four collaborative research projects: POR TB (coordinated by Statens Serum…
Sub-Saharan African Healthcare organisations join public-private partnership pilot to expand clinical research data and digital capacities
The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), Novartis and TriNetX, LLC have joined forces to support research capacity development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).…
EDCTP acknowledged in the Lancet TB series
The Lancet launched a TB series and articles where EDCTP is acknowledged as a major player in supporting TB drug development as well as diagnostics. Readers…
International Women’s Day 2022: EDCTP efforts to break the bias in health research
On this year’s International Women’s Day, EDCTP joins the global health community in celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness against bias, and taking action for equality.…
World AIDS Day 2021: tackling inequalities
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing inequalities ever more clearly. The burden of these inequalities is culminating in increasing magnitude of vulnerable populations, undermining the wellbeing…
Preparatory Fellowships – Joint call with the Africa Research Excellence Fund – 2018
Call identifier: TMA2018PF
EDCTP Knowledge Hub
The EDCTP Knowledge Hub is an online platform with resources for researchers conducting clinical research in low-resource settings.
World AIDS Day 2020
On World AIDS Day 2020, the significant progress achieved over the last two decades is justly celebrated. However, the HIV-epidemic is still far from being…
World Malaria Day 2020
On World Malaria Day 2020, the fight against malaria is facing stalled progress and a disruptive pandemic while the road to malaria eradication is still…
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…
Capacity development for disease outbreak and epidemic response in sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with Africa CDC – 2020
Expected number of grants: 7-10 grants Call Identifier: CSA2020E Project Officer: Shingai Machingaidze, contact via machingaidze@edctp.org Download Call text (PDF) Download Call specific FAQs (PDF)
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.…