The Fourth EDCTP annual forum was held from 22 to 24 October 2007 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the Sofitel Ouaga 2000 hotel with the theme ‘Building Bridges for Better Health.’  

The 2007 forum focused on the following sub-themes:

1. On-going clinical trials in Africa
2. Clinical trial networks in Africa
3. Challenges in building clinical trial capacities in Africa
   a. Regulatory and ethics environment
   b. Networks and Nodes of excellence

• Fourth Annual Forum official website

The theme for the third forum was Partnership and African Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities. During the Forum meeting, the focus was on the following sub-themes:

1. Building capacity in scientific skills and leadership in Africa: strategies and experiences
2. Networking within the partnership

• 3rd Forum Official website
• Download the EDCTP 3rd Forum report (PDF - 2.39MB).

The main aim of the Second Forum of EDCTP held in Durban, South Africa, on 3-5 October 2005, was to come up with considering recommendations on how EDCTP can do more and better in terms of the theme of the meeting, namely 'HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in Africa: From Knowledge to Implementation'. An agreed strategy would also serve the broader objectives of partnerships that drive a global health agenda and consequently would aim to promote prosperity and solidarity, ensuring long-term success and a better quality of life for future generations.

Download the Second Annual EDCTP Forum Report (PDF - 2.7MB)

The 1st Annual EDCTP Forum gathered scientists from Africa and Europe, international organisations and policymakers to share information and views as to how optimally address the challenges of interventions to control HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa.
Specific objectives are:

• To identify gaps in knowledge, particularly around the needs and opportunities in Africa to conduct trials of drugs, vaccines and microbicides against the 3 poverty-related diseases.
• To identify approaches and priorities for capacity strengthening to facilitate the conduct of high quality clinical trials.
• To identify areas where EDCTP can collaborate with other organisations in seeking to achieve its goals.
• To identify the possibilities for collaboration between European and African research programmes related to clinical trials and capacity development.