Infectious and Rare Diseases

Infectious Diseases in Europe

The Research programme on infectious diseases comprises Poverty Related Diseases (PRD), Which including the main scourges i.e., HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, Anti-microbial Drug Resistance (AMDR), Emerging Epidemics (EE) and Neglected Infectious Diseases (NID). The strategic objective of this area is to confront HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Europe and the rest of the world is at broad fronts and in a multidisciplinary approach through the development of effective preventive and controlling strategies. Clinical evaluation of vaccine and drugs are facilitated through the European and the Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), which is a pioneer programme of the European Union specifically tailored to meet the needs of developing countries, focused on phase II and III clinical trials of vaccines and drugs against HIV, malaria and tuberculosis and of HIV microbicides.