Challenges for the future. Research on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis

ISBN 978-92-79-11769-5
European Communities, 2009

The European Commission (DG Research) brought together a large number of stakeholders in an International Conference on Poverty-Related Diseases (PRDs) with the aim of increasing the impact of EU-funded research on controlling PRDs. Leading scientists, research managers, decision-makers, funding agencies and relevant international NGOs attended (over 350 representatives from 63 countries), with significant participation from disease-endemic countries.

The goals of the conference were to:

• regain political momentum for continuing and intensifying research addressing the “big three” global killer diseases;
• set the scene by reporting on research efforts supported by the EC since 2002, when HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB first became a separate research focus under the EU’s 6th Framework Programme (FP6);
• gather input from relevant stakeholders (scientists from Europe and disease-endemic countries, industry, funding agencies, global partners, etc.) in order to set research priorities on PRDs for the remainder of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) and beyond.