European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is a European–African research partnership that supports clinical research and the development of medical interventions to combat infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa. The current programme, Global Health EDCTP3, operates as a joint undertaking under Horizon Europe, established by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085.

The partnership brings together the European Union, European and African countries participating through the EDCTP Association, and other public and private partners. Its activities focus on accelerating the development of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and other health technologies while strengthening clinical research capacity and health systems in Africa.

Since its creation in 2003, EDCTP has been implemented through successive programmes funded under the European Union’s research framework programmes:

  • EDCTP1 (2003–2015)
  • EDCTP2 (2014–2026)
  • Global Health EDCTP3 (2021–2031)

The partnership aims to reduce the health and socio-economic burden of infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa while strengthening epidemic preparedness and global health security.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.