Calls
- The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) announces 10 new calls for partnerships with African countries to develop and evaluate new vaccines and medications. Deadlines between 5.9.2017 and 2.2.2018
- The German Science Foundation issued a new call for proposals for German-African cooperation projects in infectiology. Deadline is the 6. December 2017
- The Global Challenges Research Fund issued the STFC Foundation Award Call 2017. Deadline 5.9.2017, 4pm
Conferences
Interesting Reads
- Reflections on an internship with the Medical Research Council (UK): What do funders want?
- The 2017 Ashden Award goes to three renewable energy developers, who work in East Africa
- African civil society calls for an African Rule Book for the Paris agreement to “help in galvanising a robust presentation of African perspectives in the Paris Rule Book”
- Mathematical modelling to predict that the deadly Gambian form of Sleeping Sickness could be eliminated in 6 years in DRC