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As of March 2021, EDCTP is supporting 26 collaborative research projects under its COVID-19 Emergency Funding Mechanism, activated in April 2020. One year on from the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, many research questions have been answered, many others are still under investigation and new questions are emerging.We invite you to join us in this live webinar where we will share experiences and study findings among the EDCTP-supported COVID-19 research consortia, discuss new emerging questions and current public health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa, and inform the global research community and stakeholders about EDCTP-funded COVID-19 research in sub-Saharan Africa.

When: 18-19 March 2021, 13:00-17:00 CETWhere: Virtual (Zoom)

Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cHhn2t0SQvuNJYemkJesBg

The virtual conference will be held in the evenings from 16:00 – 20:00 over 2 days. We will invite renown local, regional and international speakers from the HIV community to discuss and debate the impact COVID-19 has had on the South African and regional HIV epidemic. The speakers will reflect on progress made in the HIV response in the context of COVID-19, the impact the pandemic has had on people living with HIV and on HIV/TB service delivery. We will also touch on COVID-19 vaccines in people living with HIV.

SA AIDS in-person Conference 2022
The in-person conference will be postponed to 2022 when we hope we will be able to host the conference in Durban.

For more information visit http://saaids.co.za/

The LiberHetica and BERC-Luso consortia will meet on the 26th March 2021 to discuss about Biomedical Ethics and Regulatory Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan African countries.
The BERC-Luso and LiberHetica are two projects funded by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) aimed at strenghting ethics and regulatory capacities for clinical trials by partnerships between African and European countries, and involving 5 Sub-Saharan African countries (Liberia, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Cape-Verde) and 2 European countries (U.K. and Portugal).

For more information visit https://www.liberhetica.org/2021/03/09/biomedical-ethics-and-regulatory-capacity-building-international-dialogues/

This meeting will bring together global research funders, including those who are funding research on COVID-19 within low- and middle- income countries (LMICs), with the community of researchers who are actively undertaking this research across LMICs.

Topics of discussion will include:
• Clinical research
• Health systems & indirect impacts of COVID-19
• Transmission
• One Health

Registration details and full programme to follow.
Ahead of the “COVID-19 Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” meeting, we are keen to understand researcher perspectives on the barriers to, and enablers of, effective research in COVID-19 research in and for LMICs. To provide your inputs, please complete this short survey (3 mins) - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5PLMP2C
The findings will be used to identify lessons learnt to inform future research responses to epidemics and pandemics in LMICs

To register visit https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5516147671296/WN_wz4_fyLWSQOn3B6E0Iy3pw