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Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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Organization Timeline
African expert panel on traditional remedies is launched
📅 22 July 2020WHO and Africa CDC launched a 25-member committee to advise on testing proposed traditional therapies for COVID-19.
African scientists seek evidence for traditional treatments
📅 22 July 2020The newly launched panel emphasized clinical trials that assess efficacy, safety and quality; it did not certify a COVID-19 remedy.
Regional panel brings African research expertise together
📅 22 July 2020Members came from research institutions, regulators, traditional medicine programmes and civil society across the region.
WHO Africa stresses rigorous clinical testing
📅 22 July 2020Regional director Matshidiso Moeti said that research into potential traditional COVID-19 therapies needed a scientific foundation.
African panel endorses herbal trial protocol
📅 19 September 2020A regional expert panel endorsed a phase III clinical trial protocol for candidate herbal products against COVID-19, without approving a product.
Safety monitoring enters proposed herbal trials
📅 19 September 2020The panel also endorsed terms of reference for a data and safety monitoring board to review participant safety during trials.
African herbal research adopts a common trial design
📅 19 September 2020The agreed protocol was intended to help African scientists generate comparable evidence under international clinical research standards.
Expert panel distinguishes proposed cures from proven ones
📅 19 September 2020Its endorsement applied to methods for testing potential therapies; safety and effectiveness remained to be established by research.