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2025

Prof. George Boateng Kyei: advancing HIV research in Africa

2025

MTBVACN3 Annual Investigators meeting

2025

Completion of recruitment for KALUMA study by WANECAM-2 Consortium

2025

PREPARED final conference: promoting equitable science during crises 

2025

Strengthening clinical trial capacities in Lusophone Africa: training NRAs reviewers

2025

EDCTP at INTEREST 2025: Advancing Research Capacity in Africa

2025

EDCTP team visit to research centres in Malawi

2025

Financial and Project Management Training Workshop for Global Health EDCTP3 grant holders, 25-26 April 2025, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025

Celebrating the achievements of Dr Anna-Ursula Happel

2025

PYRAPREG: Final project meeting and project achievements

2025

PYRAPREG: Two PhD graduates achieve milestone in research

2025

Meeting of the EDCTP Association and Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking staff

2025

The CETH study: strengthening community engagement in TB and HIV vaccine trials in South Africa

2025

IDEA Fellowship: global experts call for rebranding ebola virus disease to combat stigma and strengthen global preparedness

2025

EACCR3: Science communication beyond journal publications training workshop

2025

PROFORMA: Report on the project closure symposium

2025

INTEGRATION project close-up meeting

2025

Workshop series: Implementing the AU-EU Innovation Agenda

2025

Prof. Kamija Phiri: the impact of the EDCTP Scientific Leadership Prize on global health research

2025

Prof. Catherine Orrell appointed new Director for HIV Research Unit at South African MRC

2025

Strengthening epidemiology training in French-speaking Africa: insights from the PREP-EPID project

2025

Advancing diagnostics for non-malarial febrile illnesses in HIV-infected children

2025

CDAE project: dissemination and closing workshop

2025

Stool4TB completes recruitment

2025

SimpliciTB: OptiRiMoxTB trial completes recruitment

2024

THRU-Zim: Investing in research capacity development with EDCTP Prize

2024

EDCTP at the 11th Zambia Health Research Conference

2024

Financial and project management training workshop in Nairobi

2024

World Congress of Epidemiology

2024

Finance and Management Training in Maputo, Mozambique

2024

EDCTP visit to Kigali, Rwanda

2024

PREPARED Amsterdam Plenary

2024

Fellow profile: Dr Joseph Fokam

2024

Fellow profile: Dr Moleen Dzikiti

2024

EvaLAMP & db-NALFIA study: PhD examination Dawit Hagos

2024

KILGORIS project paves the way towards the next generation of HIV-1 immunogens

2024

SNECFA project conclusion workshop in Cameroon

2024

From SPaRCS to CEPSA – introducing the Centre of Excellence for Pharmacovigilance in Southern Africa

2024

DIAGMAL project meeting

2024

Financial and project management training in Dakar, Senegal

2024

Global Health EDCTP3 and the EDCTP Association Africa Office participate in DG Marc Lemaître visit to Cape Town

2024

EDCTP-PACTR virtual workshop on enhancing the functionality of the PACTR registry

2024

Professor Peter Kremsner: the impact of the EDCTP Prize on clinical research in Gabon

2024

Click TB Consortium completes recruitment for novel oral carbapenem antibiotic

2024

TEBWA project: strengthening capacity in biostatistics in West and Central Africa through networking and collaborations

2024

PediCAP trial findings disseminated to Mozambican healthcare community

2024

DATURA project Project Steering Committee and Data and Safety Monitoring Board meeting

2024

'Big-data' analysis of HIV viral loads reveals the need for targeted HIV-treatment interventions in HIV hyper-endemic settings

2024

INTENSE-TBM General Assembly Meeting

2024

TEBWA project closing workshop

2024

New framework for visceral leishmaniasis elimination launched for Eastern Africa

2024

Two new Institutional Review Board offices opened

2024

Seminar: The journey towards a strengthened and self-reliant African Clinical Trials Ecosystem: EDCTP 20-year experience

2024

SFA Foundation, EDCTP and CTCAN Meeting

2024

EDCTP at the MIM Society 8th Pan-African Malaria Conference and site visit in Rwanda

2024

The 35th Meeting of the African Advisory Committee for Research and Development (AACHRD)

2024

Dr David Kateete: Transitioning to the next chapter after the EDCTP Career Development Fellowship

2024

Rising stars from the HEPMAL project

2024

Fellow profile: Professor Wendy Burgers (South Africa)

2024

BRECOR project: development of the draft law to protect research participants in Rwanda

2024

Fellow profile: Professor Novel Chegou

2024

Fellow profile: Professor Richard Phillips (Ghana)

2023

Ghana FELTP 6th Scientific Conference and Competency Graduation

2023

Inauguration of the first BioNTech Africa manufacturing site

2023

EDCTP Financial and Project Management Training workshop in Dakar

2023

EDCTP at CPHIA 2023

2023

Launch of the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine

2023

Launch of the GloPID-R Africa Hub

2023

EDCTP session at SSUNGA78: Investing in Research and Development of Innovative Digital Health Solutions for Africa

2023

Interview with Dr Thomas Nyirenda: Africa Needs to Strengthen Disease Surveillance and Innovation to Address Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

2023

PREPARED plenary meeting

2023

EDCTP Africa Office at the 2nd International Post-Tuberculosis Symposium

2023

EDCTP Africa Office at AU-EU Innovation Festival

2023

EDCTP site visit Côte d’Ivoire

2023

Fellow profile: Professor Hamtandi Magloire Natama

2023

AMÉLIORER project: strengthening research ethics and regulatory capacities in Benin

2023

TRREE: updated and expanded e-learning programme

2023

SIMBLE project third consortium meeting

2023

SPaRCS project: Reflections on learnings and future possibilities from a participatory action learning project

2023

PEST4MEN study shows promise for reaching highly mobile men in the fishing communities with HIV testing services in Uganda

2023

TB-CAPT progress meeting and data unblinding

2023

Prof. Romain Glèlè Kakai joins the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium as a group lead on malaria

2023

EDCTP visits BlockRabies project in Abidjan and San Pedro, Côte d’Ivoire

2023

EDCTP Fellow Dr Mary Aigbiremo Oboh awarded ARISE grant

2023

CCRREEA: establishment of RECs at partner institutions

2023

BCA-WA-ETHICS-II project publishes Roadmap for the Harmonization of Governance Strategies for National Research Ethics Committees beyond Health Emergencies

2023

Germany issues award to IAVI to support development of the MTBVAC TB vaccine candidate

2023

PedMAb: on your marks, get set, go!

2023

PEOPLE and PEP4LEP at LRI Spring meeting

2023

EAPoC-VL Annual meeting

2023

GELA: Identifying priorities for newborn and child health guidelines

2023

POR-TB: Last participant last visit

2023

INTEGRATION investigators’ meeting

2023

PYRAPREG investigators’ meeting

2023

TB vaccine projects coordination meeting

2023

Interview with EPI-Biostat Fellow Dr Sarah Nyangu

2023

The establishment of four new Regional Research Ethics Committees through the BREEDSAFCA project

2023

EACCR3 - Handover of Research Ethics Committee office Jinja Regional Referral Hospital

2023

MIMVaC-Africa Second Annual Meeting

2023

DPP consortium: First Investigators Annual Meeting

2023

Interview with Professor Samuel Wanji (Senior Fellowship Plus)

2022

MMVC annual meeting

2022

TB-CAPT annual meeting

2022

Integrated malaria prevention implementation (IMPUG) study holds community dissemination workshop in Uganda

2022

EMPIRICAL Annual Meeting in Uganda, 15-16 November 2022

2022

EDCTP site visit to Kenya, 28-29 November 2022

2022

EDCTP site visit to Senegal, 14-15 November 2022

2022

DIAGMAL investigator meeting

2022

MTI-plus project develops Microbial Variance Tracker

2022

TESA III annual meeting

2022

Strengthening scientific excellence at Mount Kenya University through the MKU Post-doctoral research programme

2022

POR TB annual meeting

2022

TB TRIAGE+: recruitment starts in Lesotho and South Africa

2022

SIMBLE consortium meeting

2022

STReK project mentorship programme on research ethics

2022

EDCTP Fellow: Dr Caroline Cleopatra Chisenga

2022

BREEDSAFCA: ethics review and pharmacovigilance in Cameroon

2022

BCG-COVID-RCT meets BERC-Luso

2022

TB-CAPT session at ASLM LabCop 2022 Annual Meeting

2022

EACCR hosts research ethics committee training

2022

CANTAM clinical trial monitors workshop

2022

DiTECT-HAT: Dr Charlie Compaoré defends thesis on new tools to control African trypanosomiasis

2022

PAMAfrica and SINDOFO consortia annual investigators’ meetings

2022

freeBILy annual meeting

2022

Launch ceremony of FETP-CV Master in Epidemiology Training

2022

GloPID-R funding support by EDCTP

2022

MMVC: Booster dose of R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine candidate highly efficacious

2022

Dr Moses Kumwenda – video on “Undetectable = Untransmittable”

2022

MaReCa project: Paul Martine Hayuma wins Best Laboratory Scientist of the year award

2022

BCA-WA-ETHICSII: Ethics policy brief

2022

TESA visits EDCTP Africa Office

2022

CANTAM3 joint workshop on biostatistics

2022

CANTAM3 workshop: Introduction to empirical population genetics to support elimination of tropical diseases (GENEPOP-CAM)

2022

BERC-Africa: Fifth clinical trials fellowship training

2022

SCINE-U dissemination workshop

2022

TB-CAPT: Start of recruitment for CORE and HIV trials

2022

Triage TB: Interview with AnnRitah Namuganga

2022

SeroSelectTB: Consortium meeting and start recruitment

2022

DIAGMAL completes training and starts recruitment for the evaluation of an innovative diagnostic platform for malaria

2022

Royal Society Africa Prize for Professor Novel Njweipi Chegou

2022

PREV_PKDL: ImmStat@Cure multidimensional, multiparameter phenotyping study begun in Kenya

2022

CETH: participate in survey on strengthening community engagement in clinical trials

2022

BERC-Luso visits Angola

2022

EACCR3 third General Assembly and scientific meeting

2022

SEARCH first General Assembly meeting

2022

HEPMAL organises inter-junior high schools Hepatitis quiz competition

2022

ACOZI-KIDS: Start of clinical trial for simplified treatment of sleeping sickness in children

2022

SeroSelectTB project kick-off meeting

2022

SCONE project: summary of first year activities

2022

BCA-WA ETHICS II: over 130 scientists at "Fundamentals of research ethics" training

2022

BCA-WA ETHICS II: Guinea-Bissau National Research Ethics Committee website launched

2022

BERC-Luso visits Guinea-Bissau

2022

BREATHER Plus: start of recruitment in Uganda

2022

CSIGN project dissemination meeting

2022

GELA project in Cochrane newsletter

2022

ETEC ETVAX: phase IIb trial recruitment completed

2022

priMe: recruitment completed for phase III trial on tuberculosis in neonates

2022

EMPIRICAL study: Patient recruitment reaches halfway point

2022

BCA-WA-ETHICS II: CEICA & UNIZAR research ethics and gender mainstreaming internships successfully concluded

2022

SCRECU: launch of national online ethics review system

2022

SIMBLE: production unit microbiology media completed

2022

PediCAP surpasses 25% patient recruitment milestone

2022

priMe completes recruitment for a large African trial on prevention of tuberculosis in neonates

2022

PEP4LEP blog on skin camps

2022

NeutroTB study highlights potential unique phenotypes of neutrophils

2022

STReK regional conference on strengthening research ethics

2022

SNECFA Project implementation in Francophone West and Central Africa

2022

BERC-Luso team visits Cape Verde

2022

LIBERHetica research ethics training manual

2022

BCA-WA-ETHICS II advocacy paper

2022

First participant enrolled in DATURA study

2022

PREV_PKDL Annual Meeting

2022

Stool4TB first annual meeting

2022

ALERRT annual meeting

2022

UPTAKE consortium meeting

2022

MTBVACN3 kick-off meeting

2022

International Clinical Trials Day (20 May): the story of the VITALITY trial

2022

COAST-Nutrition completes recruitment

2022

EDCTP-funded vaccine projects coordination meeting

2022

BERC-Luso visits São Tomé and Príncipe

2022

LusoAfro-BioEthics ethics for health research course

2022

SPaRCS Project team meeting

2022

WANECAM-2 second annual meeting

2022

BCA-WA ETHICS II webinar on sex and gender data visualisation

2022

BCA-WA ETHICS II: Third scientific congress on research ethics during COVID-19

2022

BCA-WA ETHICS II: White Book of recommendations for gender mainstreaming in NRECs in West Africa

2022

CANTAM3 steering committee meeting

2022

Uppsala Monitoring Centre #DrugSafetyMatters podcast on PROFORMA

2022

PEDVACiNTS first annual meeting

2022

TDR article: Exploring the link between malnutrition and malaria prevention

2022

Childhood TB Sequel stakeholders’ meeting and training for health workers

2022

5FC HIV-Crypto consortium starts trial on improved treatment of cryptococcal meningitis in advanced HIV disease

2022

STOP consortium starts phase II clinical trial

2022

MULTIPLY starts recruitment for the IPTi-SP intervention in Sierra Leone

2022

MiniMox annual meeting

2022

PREV_PKDL project strengthens flow cytometry capacity in Africa

2022

PREPARE consortium: recruitment completed for phase II trial of MinervaX GBS-NN/NN2 vaccine

2022

BCA-WA ETHICS II second webinar of the "Biostatistics for ethicists" series

2022

BCA-WA-ETHICS II training programme on research ethics successfully concluded

2022

São Tomé and Principe hosts webinar “The importance of clinical trials in São Tomé and Principe"

2022

BERC-Luso project members in newly established São Tomé and Principe ethics committee

2022

StatinTB: New BSL-3 laboratory on the UNAM campus in Windhoek, Namibia

2022

Dr Adebanjo Adegbola first fellow to complete EDCTP-AREF Fellowship

2022

Côte d’Ivoire national ethics committee engages with stakeholders

2022

CECaBI research ethics and participants’ protection workshop

2022

PAVIA launches Eswatini pharmacovigilance policy and guide

2022

PROFORMA Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (QPPV) training

2022

Launch of the MULTIPLY study (IPTi) in Sierra Leone

2022

CAFÉ-SEA female PhD programme grants awarded

2022

BlockRabies receives an additional 10,000 doses of RABIPUR

2022

WANETAM II moves towards WANETAM III

2021

Studentships under EDCTP Career Development Fellow Dr Michael Owusu

2021

INTEGRATION kick-off meeting

2021

HAT-r-ACC study for sleeping sickness completes recruitment

2021

IMPALA project first annual meeting

2021

CAPRISA 012 Phase I trial completed

2021

Master in Field Epidemiology training for Portuguese-speaking West African countries

2021

AfriKADIA Phase II trial in Nature Medicine’s ’11 clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2022’

2021

UPTAKE study updates on activities

2021

PediCAP article on World Pneumonia Day

2021

StatinTB year 3 progress meeting

2021

EACCR3 launch event

2021

TriageTB Annual Meeting

2021

SCEPRESSA kick-off meeting

2021

First BCA-WA-ETHICS II advisory board meeting

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