Welcome to AE-TBC

Welcome to the African European Tuberculosis Consortium (AE-TBC) website. Our aim is to develop new, sensitive, inexpensive and field friendly diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB). The consortium includes seven African and five European institutions and our current project runs from July 2010 until June 2013. We are funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) in response to a call for ‘Support of clinical trials, capacity building and networking in new and improved diagnostics for tuberculosis’. Most of the AE-TBC partners are also part of the Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Consortium, which is part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative launched in 2003 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.