The KILGORIS project (Masai for ‘Unstable’ to describe the ever-changing nature of HIV-1), led by EDCTP Career Development Fellow Dr Andrew Ekii Obuku (Uganda), is…
The project “Strengthening National Ethics Committees in West and Central Francophone Africa (SNECFA)” concluded with a successful workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 1-3 October 2024.…
The EDCTP2-funded SPaRCS project (Strengthening Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Capacity across four Southern African countries), was a key contributor to the establishment of the new Centre…
The DIAGMAL project held its final EDCTP2 consortium meeting on 17 and 18 October in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting was hosted by AMREF Health Africa…
From 25-26 November 2024, the EDCTP Association in collaboration with the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (JU) held a two-day financial and project management training…
On his first mission to South Africa, Mr Marc Lemaître, Director General of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), was hosted in Cape Town…
The virtual workshop held on 20 November 2024, hosted by the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR) in collaboration with EDCTP, was a resounding success.…
In 2023, Professor Peter Kremsner was awarded the prestigious EDCTP Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize, recognising his substantial contributions to medical research in Africa. With the…
The TASK-009-SANF, a phase 2A clinical trial investigating the use of sanfetrinem cilexetil—an oral carbapenem antibiotic for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)—has successfully concluded patient enrolment. The…
There is a critical need for biostatisticians in West and Central Africa to develop study designs, contribute as well as apply statistical methods in public…
The PediCAP trial team announced the successful completion of a series of dissemination meetings aimed at sharing trial results with key stakeholders in Mozambique. These…
The EDCTP/ANRS-funded DATURA project organised its first face-to-face joint Project Steering Committee (PSC) and Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) meeting on 7-9 July 2024…
Human Immunodeficieny Virus (HIV) remains a public health concern causing severe immunodeficiency in the absence of antiretroviral treatment (ART). Inadequate viral load (VL) suppression increases…
The 9th INTENSE-TBM General Assembly Meeting has been hosted by the University of Geneva (co-Principal Investigator: Prof. Alexandra Calmy) on 6-8 June 2024. At a…
dav From 20-21 June 2024, the project Training epidemiologists and biostatisticians for enhanced response to disease outbreaks and epidemics in West Africa (TEBWA), held its…
A new, comprehensive framework has been launched to guide health authorities, policy makers and other stakeholders towards the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis as a public health…
As part of its deliverables, the Botswana Clinical Trials Regulation (BoCTRe) project has successfully trained and established two Institutional Review Board (IRB) offices for Ngamiland…
On 27 May 2024, Dr Thomas Nyirenda, Strategic Partnerships & Capacity Development Manager and Head of Africa Office, EDCTP Association, participated in a seminar organised…
The Clinical Trials and Research Community (CRTC) programme of the Science for Africa (SFA) Foundation hosted a delegation from EDCTP Association, the Global Health EDCTP3-funded Clinical Trials African Network (CTCAN)…
The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Society 8th Pan-African Malaria Conference took place on 21-27 April 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda under the theme ‘Grassroots mobilization…
The AACHRD was established to advise the WHO Africa Regional Director on research related to health policies and development strategies. The 35th meeting of the Committee was held in Brazzaville, Congo from…
The Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (GFELTP) held its 6th Scientific Conference and Competency Graduation from 13-14 December 2023 in Accra, Ghana. The…
An event on 18 December 2023 marked the inauguration of the first BioNTech Africa manufacturing site in Kigali, Rwanda. The inauguration took place on the…
The EDCTP Financial and Project Management Training workshop in Dakar, Senegal, from 30 November to 1 December 2023 welcomed 40 participants, mostly from West Africa.…
The 3rd CPHIA (International Conference on Public Health in Africa) took place from 27-30 November 2023 in Lusaka, Zambia. The conference offers a distinctive platform…
The new European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed) was officially launched on 5 October 2023 at a high-level conference on Personalised Medicine in Valencia.…
The GloPID-R Africa Hub was officially launched during a conference on August 22-23 in Cape Town, hosted by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC).…
In a pivotal session held on 14 September 2023 as part of the 9th edition of the Science Summit during the 78th United Nations General…
Dr Thomas Nyirenda, EDCTP Strategic Partnerships & Capacity Development Manager and Head of Africa Office, was interviewed by HealthTimes. He shared his views on Africa’s…
The EU-funded PREPARED consortium held its Paris plenary on 6-8 June 2023 at the UNESCO Headquarters in France. The project brings together a network of…