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We fund clinical research, train scientists, and strengthen health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, developing local solutions and boosting global health security.

Funded by the European Union and 40+ countries.

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🆕 What happens when €161 million powers innovation in global health?

It launches 29 new projects spanning areas such as HIV, malaria, neglected infectious diseases, and digital health, driving real-world solutions.

Discover more: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...

#NewProjects25
Three of our projects tackling #AMR:

🔬 UTI-Diag: New tools in Cameroon & Senegal could cut UTI misdiagnosis from 33% → 5%.
👶 SNIP-AFRICA: Adaptive trials to improve newborn infection treatment.
💧 ODIN: Wastewater genomics to track AMR & outbreaks early.

#WAAW, #AMR
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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✨#WorldAMRWeek highlight✨
🦟#MARCSEAfrica assembles and analyses regional data on resistance to support fast, evidence-based policy to address the rising #AntimalarialResistance.
Explore recent updates presented at #TropMed25:
www.marcse-africa.org/news/blog/ad...
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MARC SE-AFRICA advancing data-led responses to drug-resistant malaria at ASTMH — MARC SE-Africa
On 11 November 2025, MARC SE-Africa and the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network co-hosted a symposium at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s annual meeting and presented some...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
When medicines stop working, lives are at risk. #AMR demands action.

For World AMR Week, we echo this year’s call: Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.

Our portfolio:
🔹 32 projects
🔹 €165.4M
🔹 184 institutions
🔹 47 countries

#WAAW

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November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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The #SkincAIrGlossary - Understanding the language behind the project.

4️⃣Global health:
→ Focuses on improving health and achieving health equity worldwide.
→ Addresses transnational health issues, exploring their causes and potential solutions.

@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social #GlobalHealth
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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During #WorldAMRWeek, we celebrate LINQ-supported projects dedicated to fighting the rise in #AMR to protect global health.

Stay tuned to learn more about #ComBacAfrica, #GenPathAfrica, #MARCSEAfrica, #PROTECT, #Vax2Muc!

#WAAW #WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The #PROTECTnetwork aims to improve maternal and child health in Africa. #AntimicrobialResistance surveillance of bacterial infections is a key step in this process.

Learn more from Dr Sergio Massora:
🔗 tinyurl.com/58d9y4ps

@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social #WAAW #WAAW2025 #WorldAMRWeek
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🌍💊#WAAW2025 highlight - #ComBacAfrica

The ComBac-Africa project brings together scientists from Africa and Europe with one mission: to address the growing threat of #AMR in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Learn more about the project here➡️ www.combac-africa.org

@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing public health challenge in Europe.

Misuse and overuse make bacteria resistant, making infections harder to treat.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If you have ever compared two costing studies and wondered why the numbers don’t match… You are not alone.

A new open-access paper explains how costs are defined & measured in global health and why consistency matters for better decisions.

Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An Introduction to Costing and the Types of Costs Used within Health Economic Studies - PharmacoEconomics - Open
The number of published health economic analyses, especially economic evaluations, has rapidly expanded globally since the 1990s, and costs are an essential component of such studies. Cost is a genera...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Decentralised #tuberculosis testing works.

In #Mozambique & #Tanzania, clinics using on-site Truenat diagnostics started treatment in 97% of confirmed TB patients in 7 days vs. 63%.

Same-day treatment: 82% vs. 3%.

By the #EDCTP-funded TB-CAPT trial 👉 thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Implementing the Molbio Truenat platform and tuberculosis assays versus standard of care at primary care clinics for the detection and treatment of tuberculosis in Mozambique and Tanzania (TB-CAPT COR...
This trial provides strong evidence supporting the placement of low complexity molecular tuberculosis diagnostics at primary care level, to enable same-day diagnosis and treatment initiation.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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👋 Hi Bluesky!

We are the Malaria Immunology Lab at @isglobal.org

Our research focuses on understanding immune responses not only to malaria but also to COVID19, long COVID, helminth infections and other infectious diseases 🦟💉🦠🪱

Follow us for updates on our projects, publications and lab life!
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!

We are uniting two research powerhouses.

For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.

Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🎥New video: Using #GenomicSurveillance to control pathogen infections

Watch @tuliodna.bsky.social and Dr Nália Ismael discuss how the #GenPathAfrica project is enhancing genomic surveillance across Africa to protect public health.

Watch here👉 youtu.be/ok4RgsFIlrE

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GenPath Africa | Introducing Work Package 1
YouTube video by LINQ management
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November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
#Dengue is rising fast in #Africa, especially #WestAfrica, with >90,000 confirmed cases and 900 deaths in the last decade.

New study by our #GenPathAfrica project shows urgent need for better surveillance & local response.

📖 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.tm...
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Get SEPTRE, a free tool to design & manage high-quality clinical trial protocols.

Eligible if you are:
✔️ @tghn-news.bsky.social member
✔️ In a low or lower-middle-income country
✔️ Non-profit/public organisation
✔️ Will share outputs

By #EDCTP.

Apply 👉 edctpknowledgehub.tghn.org/protocol-dev...
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#OnThisDay, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was born: Marie Skłodowska-Curie.

Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research. 

Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Building skills that last.

Our #SNIPAfrica project is training and mentoring researchers across Africa, combining online learning, hands-on workshops and postgraduate training to strengthen research capacity for newborn health.

@pentafoundation.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpiA...
Building capacity for African researchers and clinicians | SNIP-AFRICA
YouTube video by Penta Child Health Research
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November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Have you viewed our open-access #malaria tools recently? Use them to visualise molecular markers of resistance by location and year www.iddo.org/wwarn/tracki...
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🏆 Congratulations to Dr Michael Makanga, our Executive Director, on receiving the Prix Galien Africa 2025 Special Career Achievement Prize.

The award recognises his leadership and lifelong commitment to advancing Africa’s health sovereignty. 🌍👏

🔗 www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
Driving African health sovereignty earns Dr Makanga a special prize of Prix Galien Africa
Dr Michael Makanga, Executive Director of Global Health EDCTP3, has been awarded a Special Career Achievement Prize of the Prix Galien Africa 2025 in recognition of his exceptional leadership in medic...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#BIOVentures 15-session GIA Biomedical Research course for scientists in LMICs.

Covers drug, diagnostic & vaccine R&D, funding, and connects participants to a digital platform for mentorship & resources.

🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#CapacityStrengthening
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Want to stay up to date with the project updates ?
Our upcoming newsletter is the easiest way! 📰

Every edition will bring you:
✅ Latest project updates
✅ Exclusive interviews with our researchers
✅ Insights into the latest advances in tackling AMR

👉 Sign up now: https://bit.ly/4qDXxMj
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Incredible nominations are already coming in for #BFA2025 & we can’t wait to celebrate more champions.

Our past Penta BFA winners prove that local heroes can change global health.

Entries close 15 November.

Nominate your hero today! www.penta-id.org/bfa
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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🧬How can genomics help control infectious diseases?

In an interview, #GenPathAfrica coordinator @tuliodna.bsky.social shares the project’s mission to control pathogen infections in Africa through advancing genomic surveillance.

🎥Watch here: youtu.be/yfaUsgChOAE

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GenPath Africa | Introducing the GenPath Africa Project
YouTube video by LINQ management
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November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
'If an emerging threat hits tomorrow, we must be ready to launch a trial within 30 days ethically, safely and collaboratively.'

With this reminder, Michael Makanga closed his keynote on global health resilience at UHAS Ghana.

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Invest in health resilient systems now before next pandemic breaks - Dr Makanga  | Ghana News Agency
By Maxwell Awumah, GNA  Ho Oct 23, GNA – Dr Michael Makanga, the Executive Director, Global Health European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 3 (Global Health EDCTP3)…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎙️ Did you listen to our #SAFIRE project, working on #malaria in pregnancy, on the BBC World Service Health Check?

Prof. Kayentao spoke about enrolling the first patients in this historic Phase 3 #clinicaltrial in #Mali, #BurkinaFaso and #Kenya.

🔊 From 17:00:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | Health Check | How impostors distort medical research
How to find human and bot impostors amongst real participants in health research
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October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM