Networks of Excellence to boost African clinical trials capacity
Posted by Ilona van den Brink on October 10, 2009 at 15:34 pm
By Ochieng’ Ogodo
Africa has been dodged with the lack of both human and infrastructural capacity for conducting clinical trials on diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Whereas some African countries have been collaborating with European counterparts, EDCTP’s Networking and Capacity Development manager, Dr Thomas Nyirenda says as long as the continent’s systems remain weak as they are today, Africa will always lag behind in clinical trials. “We are facing an imbalance, which calls for capacity building involving existing institutions in West, East, Central and Southern Africa.”
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