Objective
Leishmaniases are serious communicable diseases around the whole world, including Southern Europe. These diseases are spreading and control is challenged by three escalating risk factors: human-made and environmental changes, immune status (essentially because of Leishmania/HIV co-infection) and, treatment failure and drug resistance.
Synergy between these risk factors might create the 'critical mass' of an explosive epidemiological status for leishmaniases. Interaction between these factors is poorly studied and understood; in addition, modern tools for surveillance and control are required. Currently, 9 EU-funded consortia (FP5 and FP6) are active in leishmaniasis research. These consortia are complimentary to each other because of their research topics (environmental surveillance, diagnostics, molecular epidemiology, drug resistance, control intervention) and geographical coverage (Euro-Mediterranean region, Latin America, Africa, Asia).
Co-ordination and exchange of the knowledge and technologies provided by these consortia would significantly contribute to improve the control of leishmaniasis. Attempts for bridging are in progress and are facilitated by the fact that several institutions are involved in more than one of these projects. However, a better-structured synergy is needed and this is the right moment to promote it.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses HIV
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug resistance
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP6-2002-INCO-DEV/SSA-1
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
ANTWERPEN
Belgium
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