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  • €1.84 billion
    Total budget of Global Health EDCTP3
  • €597 million
    Funding for 116 projects with clinical trials and scientific studies
  • €109 million
    Funding for 38 projects that strengthen clinical research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 49 members of EDCTP Association
    33 African and 16 European countries
  • 508 participating entities
    from 69 countries
  • 33 SMEs
    participating in projects

Our projects

Global Health EDCTP3-funded VectorGrid-Africa project logo
  • In progress
  • Emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases
  • Malaria
  • Neglected infectious diseases
Monitoring mosquito populations across AfricaThe VectorGrid-Africa project is developing a platform that could eventually provide an intimate picture of disease-transmitting mosquitoes...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded MTBVAC-AVANTE project logo
  • In progress
  • Tuberculosis
Advancing the development and future access of a new tuberculosis vaccineThe MTBVAC-AVANTE consortium, led by Biofabri, is advancing one of the world's most advanced tuberculosis vaccine...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded MAGFA project logo
  • In progress
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Other childhood infectious diseases
Preventing transmission of viral infections during pregnancyThe MAGFA project is developing a point-of-care test to simultaneously detect HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus infections in...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded DEFEND project logo
  • In progress
  • Malaria
Targeting malaria parasites within mosquitoesThe DEFEND project is piloting a highly innovative strategy to disrupt the spread of malaria by infecting mosquitoes with a strain of bacterium...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded PregInPoxVac project logo
  • In progress
  • Emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases
Gathering additional data on mpox vaccine in infants and pregnant women The PregInPoxVac project is generating data on the use of the MVA-BN vaccine to prevent mpox infections in pregnant...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded SAFIRE project logo
  • In progress
  • Malaria
Malaria treatment in early pregnancyThe SAFIRE project is establishing an innovative adaptive clinical trial platform to evaluate antimalarial treatments for women in the first trimester of...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded TARGET project logo
  • In progress
  • Diarrhoeal diseases
BACKGROUND: Diarrhoea is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5, especially in SSA. WHO guidelines do not recommend antibiotics for acute watery diarrhoea, while...
Global Health EDCTP3-funded CTCAN project logo
  • Completed
  • Cross-disease or disease unspecific
An overarching clinical trials network for AfricaThe CTCAN project is creating an umbrella network connecting existing clinical trial networks in sub-Saharan Africa to provide a...

Our community speaks

  • ‘My message to any young researcher that's considering applying to EDCTP is: do it!’ 

    Catherine Hankins, Senior Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development 

  • ‘This programme facilitates collaboration between North and South and invests in innovation and development of the next generation.’

    John Gyapong, Vice-chairperson of the Global Health EDCTP3 Scientific Committee

  • ‘Global Health EDCTP3 is unique in addressing the gaps: strengthening the capacity and the innovation components that are essential for the developing countries.’

    Eleni Aklilu, Professor of Tropical Pharmacology

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Participating countries and organisations in Global Health EDCTP3 projects