The SUPER project will provide capacity building at the regulatory and ethics level for National Regulatory Authority, National and Institutional Ethics Committees, with the ultimate goal to strengthen an environement favourable for the clinical research addressing the burden of diseases in the Eastern African region. The project is coordinated by EACCR, the Network of Excellence in clinical research for Eastern African region, lead by Dr. Pontiano Kaleebu.
Ebola vaccine candidates are currently being evaluated in phase I–III clinical trials conducted in Africa, the EU and the US. Although preclinical development of candidate vaccines utilise different platforms, including
Pregnant women, babies and children under 5 years of age are the most vulnerable to malaria. In 2018, around 11 million pregnant women and 24 million children got malaria. Furthermore,
In a Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) study, a well-characterised strain of an infectious agent is given to carefully selected adult volunteers in order to better understand human diseases, how they spread, and