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THEME FOR ICASA 2021 - "Africa’s AIDS response: The race to 2030 – Evidence. Scale Up. Accelerate"

OBJECTIVES FOR ICASA 2021 -

• To strengthen health systems to integrate high impact interventions on comorbidities, emerging infections and NCDs.
• To build, strengthen and invest in Africa’s scientific capacity and manufacturing of vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics.
• To Identify in Africa, resource tailored interventions for populations most affected including women, children, adolescents, men and Key Populations.
• To evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the HIV/AIDS response and share lessons learned in overcoming barriers in maintaining continuity of care for people living with and at risk for HIV infection.
• To amplify national, regional, continental and global integration to reach epidemic control in Africa: Contributions from Africans in the Diaspora.

Regular Registration for ICASA2021, Durban-South Africa is still open.
Register from today till 31st August 2021 and save 100USD.

For more information visit http://icasa2021.saafrica.org/

On 30 July 2019, the European Comission published an outline of its plan for the next EDCTP programme:

"This initiative aims to increase health security in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, building on the current partnership between the EU, its Member States and sub-Saharan countries."

"It will speed up the development of effective, safe, accessible and affordable health technologies and health system interventions for infectious diseases, together with African partners and international funders."

The European Commission would like to hear your views, which will be published on the website of the Commission.

The Road map for the 'EU-Africa Global Health Partnership (Horizon Europe programme)' is open to feedback for four weeks. Therefore, the deadline for a reaction is until 27 August 2019.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/initiatives/ares-2019-4972489_en

Feedback will be taken into account for further development and fine-tuning of the initiative. The Commission will summarise the input received in a report explaining how the input will be taken on board and, if applicable, why certain suggestions can't be taken up.

EDCTP invites submission of abstracts highlighting original contributions on strategic EDCTP research topics and on research capacity strengthening, linked to the Forum theme. Investigators involved in EDCTP-funded projects are encouraged to use this opportunity to share new developments and results from their projects. The deadline for abstracts is 10 June 2021.

Format and eligibility:
Abstracts must be submitted in English and should not exceed 300 words
Abstracts should follow the format: Background; Methods; Results; Conclusions
Abstracts must not have been published or submitted for presentation to any other national or international meeting.

Submission:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Abstracts must be submitted via the online system by 10 June 2021. Only abstracts submitted online by the deadline will be considered. Detailed instructions are available in the online submission system https://edctpforum.eventsair.com/edctp-forum-2021/abstract-submission. For questions regarding abstracts, please contact the EDCTP Forum Team (forum@edctp.org).

Evaluation procedure:
All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Forum scientific programme committee and external experts, in collaboration with EDCTP secretariat members. Selection of abstracts will be based on the following criteria: Abstract quality; Relevance to the Forum theme and to EDCTP; Significance of the reported results
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the review by 14 July 2021.

Please note that the final decision on whether the abstract is accepted and, if so, whether it will be for a poster or oral presentation will be made by EDCTP and the Forum Programme Committee.

Presenting authors whose abstracts have been accepted will receive further instructions for presenting their abstract. All presenters will be required to pre-record their presentations.

How would you like to attend The 5th International Trials Methodology Conference in Brighton, UK 6th to 9thOctober 2019?

To celebrate the collaboration between The Global Health Network and the new MRC/NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership, the Global Health Methodology Research Member Hub is excited to announce a competition inviting staff working in trials in low and middle-income countries to propose a trial methodology research study with a chance to win a funded attendance to this upcoming conference.

This competition is open to anyone working in a clinical trial role including; investigator, trial coordinator, statistician, data manager, research nurse, pharmacist and trial laboratory scientist.

The winner would have the unique opportunity to meet other researchers and discuss the current issues within trials and trials methodology. The event will showcase the very latest in trials methodology research and offer plenty of valuable opportunities for networking. The Conference will also mark 10 years since the Network of Hubs for Trials Methodology Research began in 2009.

For more information or to enter visit:

https://globalresearchmethods.tghn.org/articles/competition-win-funded-attendance-5th-international-trials-methodology-conference-brighton-uk/

The competition closes midnight (GMT+1) 31 July 2019