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Start of Phase II trial of intravenous artesunate for children with severe malaria

Published on 28 August 2007 in 'Press Releases'

A multicentre Phase II trial of intravenous artesunate will begin recruitment of patients in September. The €5.3 M trial, funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), and sponsored by Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) will be conducted in Gabon and Malawi. It will evaluate the efficacy of two intravenous artesunate dosing regimens in clearing Plasmodium falciparum parasites in children with severe malaria. The trial protocol has been approved by the ethics committees and national regulatory authorities in Malawi and Gabon.

EDCTP Regional Networks of Excellence for conducting clinical trials

Published on 23 August 2007 in 'Announcements'

EDCTP is organising a networking meeting of potential applicants (institutions) for its call of proposals for establishing regional networks of excellence.

Regional Training/Workshop on in-house HIV Viral Load Assay for East, Central & Southern Africa

Published on 14 August 2007 in 'Announcements'

Through funding provided by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), The Viral Load group in the Viral Diseases Programme of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratories in Banjul, Gambia is organizing a one-week Training/Workshop in the use of their in-house HIV viral load assay.

New EDCTP Calls for proposals

Published on 3 August 2007 in 'Announcements'

EDCTP is happy to announce the launch of a new set of calls in August. These calls complete the full set of calls that are launched as a result of the Stakeholder meetings held in May and June 2007. The following calls are currently open for application.

EDCTP Newsletter

Published on 30 July 2007 in 'Announcements'

The EDCTP July newsletter has been sent out and is now also available on the website.

European Commission concludes mid-term review of EDCTP

Published on 17 July 2007 in 'Press Releases'

The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) welcomes the report of the independent expert group commissioned by the European Commission (EC) to review its operation. The view of the expert group is that EDCTP constitutes a true partnership between Europe and Africa in medical research and fulfils its primary mission to improve health on the African continent by strengthening the local research base as well as linking European scientists and institutions in the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

Calls for proposals for Malaria vaccines

Published on 6 July 2007 in 'Announcements'

EDCTP is happy to announce that the following calls have been launched on July 6:

Clinical trials, capacity development and networking in Malaria vaccines and Tuberculosis vaccines

Senior Fellowships

EDCTP Investigators Meeting

Published on 26 June 2007 in 'Announcements'

The first EDCTP Investigators Meeting took place at the Medical Research Centre (MRC) in Cape Town on 24 - 25 July 2006.

EDCTP 3rd Forum Report now available online

Published on 26 June 2007 in 'Announcements'

The report of EDCTP’s 3rd Forum meeting, which took place last year in Stockholm Sweden, is now available online.

Irish Aid grants EDCTP 1.25 million euros

Published on 14 June 2007 in 'Press Releases'

EDCTP is pleased to announce that Irish Aid has decided to support EDCTP with incremental core funding for 2007 and 2008. The aim of this funding is to promote a practical integration of European research activities on poverty-related diseases, advance EU economic interests and to contribute to Irish Aid's delivery of its international development agenda. EUR 500 000 will be made available to EDCTP for 2007 and EUR 750 000 for 2008. EUR 100 000 of this funding will be available for funding successful projects submitted to the two calls which EDCTP launched in 2006 on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and capacity building for HIV vaccines. Irish Aid have placed no restrictions on how this funding should be allocated other than that it should support excellent research and capacity building within the scope of the EDCTP remit. Ireland is a member of EDCTP and Irish Aid have indicated that they continue to take a keen interest in EDCTP's activities and may be prepared to

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