Tackling global health threats requires international collaboration and coordination across countries and continents. In this context, the EU prepared the next EDCTP programme to combat poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2003, the European Union established the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) initiative in response to the global health crisis caused by the major three poverty-related diseases: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Its goal was to provide financial support to programmes undertaken jointly by several EU Member States for the clinical development of new and better medicines to prevent and treat these diseases.
Further details: Coordinating clinical research efforts in sub-Saharan Africa