TB-HIV stakeholder meeting report now available

On 19 May 2009 EDCTP held a stakeholder meeting on optimisation of HIV treatment and HIV-TB co-infection which was hosted by Portugal at the Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau in Lisbon. The aim of the meeting was for stakeholders to guide EDCTP on a strategy for funding new integrated projects in HIV treatment and its related major infections with an emphasis on HIV-TB co-infections. Among those who spoke at the meeting was the former President of Portugal, Dr Jorge Sampiao, who is also United Nations Special Envoy to Stop TB, and Dr Ligia Amancio, the Vice President of Portugal’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia or FCT), opened the one-day meeting. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Emilia Valadas of University of Portugal.

During the meeting 41 representatives from the scientific community, policy makers, industry and EDCTP constituencies identified and prioritised potential products in the pipeline and discussed on the funding procedure. The participants recommended EDCTP launch an open call on this subject soon. Prof. Charles Mgone, the Executive Director of EDCTP informed participants that EDCTP had reserved 5 million euros for this call and was expecting equal or more matching funds from European Member States and third parties.

Download the presentations and meeting report