After almost two years of working together, the Strengthening pharmacovigilance and regulatory capacities in four Southern African countries (SPaRCS) project team met for their first…
The WANECAM-2 is led and coordinated by Prof. Abdoulaye Djimdé of the Université des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies de Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali,…
The BCA-WA ETHICS II project organized webinar on Sex and gender data visualization for health research: part I. The webinar was held in French on…
Between 22 and 25 March 2022, the BCA-WA ETHICS II project organised its third scientific congress on research ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference…
The BCA-WA ETHICS II project (Building the capacities of West Africa in research ethics) has published a White Book of recommendations on gender mainstreaming…
The Central African Network on Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (CANTAM) Regional Network of Excellence held its first in-person steering committee meeting in Dubai, United…
Professor Eleni Aklillu and Dr Abbie Barry of PROFORMA, an EDCTP-funded project on pharmacovigilance in East Africa, were the first external guests in Uppsala’s…
The PEDVAC-iNTS consortium held its first annual consortium meeting on 2 March 2022. PEDVAC-iNTS is a public-private consortium of seven partners who aim to advance a…
Dr Paul Sondo believes that malnutrition could have an important negative impact on the effectiveness of malaria prevention efforts and is exploring this hypothesis through…
The Childhood Tuberculosis (TB) Sequel project team at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG…
A consortium of leading scientists and institutions in Africa and Europe, the 5FC HIV-Crypto consortium, has launched a project that aims to deliver an improved…
The first participants of the clinical trial conducted by the STOP consortium (Stopping Transmission Of intestinal Parasites) have been recruited in Kwale County, Kenya. This…
Following the launch of the MULTIPLY project (IPTi implementation study) in Sierra Leone in November 2021, the first child received the first of six sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine…
The MiniMox project, developing a paediatric formulation of moxidectin for neglected infectious diseases, held its first annual meeting online on 1 February 2022 to present…
The PREV_PKDL project aims to advance the clinical development of ChAd63-KH vaccine for the prevention of post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). One of activities…
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of neonatal infection (including pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis) in Europe, and increasingly recognised as a significant cause…
After a successful webinar on biostatistics for ethicists held on 30 November 2021, the BCA-WA-ETHICS II project organised a second webinar on 11 February 2022.…
The BCA-WA-ETHICS II training programme ‘Training in Research Ethics, Gender Mainstreaming, NREC Governance, Audit Readiness’ took place online from 17 to 27 January 2022. It…
On 11 February 2022, BERC-Luso organised a webinar on “The importance of clinical trials in São Tomé and Príncipe” presented by Dr Jeryson Ramos and…
On 14 January 2022, the Ministry of Health of São Tomé and Principe created the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health, which includes several…
Capacity building is a key component of the EDCTP-funded StatinTB project coordinated by the University of Cape Town, that investigates the use of statins as…
Dr Adebanjo Adegbola is the first fellow to successfully complete the full cycle of the joint EDCTP- Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Preparatory Fellowships call…
On 18 January 2022, the Côte d’Ivoire National Ethics Committee met with its stakeholders in Abidjan. The meeting was attended by representatives from the World…
From 10 to 13 January 2022, the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS) conducted a training workshop in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire. The workshop focused on…
On 6 December 2021, the PAVIA project launched its pharmacovigilance policy and implementation framework document in Eswatini. The PAVIA project aims to strengthen pharmacovigilance (PV)…
Between 11 and 21 January 2022, the PROFORMA project conducted a “training of trainers” workshop on the Qualified Person Responsible for Pharmacovigilance (QPPV). A QPPV…
On 19 November 2021, the MULTIple doses of IPTi Proposal: a Lifesaving high Yield intervention (MULTIPLY) project was launched in Bombali, Northern Province of Sierra…
The Capacity building for Female Scientist in East Africa (CAFÉ-SEA) project will conduct a multidisciplinary PhD training programme to equip up to eight female scientists…
Dog-mediated rabies still kills more than 60,000 people every year. This indicates a significant failure of current health systems in developing countries, with very poor…
From 13 to 15 December 2021, the WANETAM (West African Network for TB, AIDS, and Malaria) Network of Excellence presented the achievements of WANETAM II…