“Among major institutional funders in global health, only one focuses exclusively on financing clinical research and supporting scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa: the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), a partnership between African and European countries co-funded by the European Union (EU). Why is the EDCTP so involved in using research to bring much-needed drugs to patients in the region? We wanted to know more.”
Read the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) article ‘We are building a generation of scientists who will transform research in Africa’ on the collaboration between DNDi and EDCTP in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).