Topics in the fifth issue of the EDCTP eMagazine are:
- Building African scientific leadership
 - Detecting and treating schistosomiasis
 - Enhancing drug-safety monitoring
 - Collaboration between EDCTP and Africa CDC: history and future
 
Interviews in this eMagazine:
- Professor Christian T. Happi, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics and the Director of the World Bank-funded African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria
 - Dr Maurice Odiere, Head of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit at KEMRI, Kisumu, Kenya
 - Dr Beatrice Greco, Head of R&D and Access at Merck’s Global Health Institute and member of the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium Access team
 - Professor Eleni Aklillu, Professor of Tropical Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and PROFORMA coordinator
 - Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Deputy Director of Africa CDC, and Dr Leonardo Simão, EDCTP High Representative for Africa