Update – Research And Development Goals for COVID-19 In Africa

Type Report Author African Academy of Sciences URL https://www.aasciences.africa/sites/default/files/Publications/Update%20%E2%80%93%20Research%20And%20Development%20Goals%20for%20COVID-19%20In%20Africa.pdf Date 16/07/2020 Institution African Academy of Sciences Language EN Abstract In Africa, the African Academy of Science (AAS) conduct-ed a consultative webinar followed by a survey based on the WHO Roadmap to define African research priorities for the COVID-19 outbreak. The Research and Development goals for COVID-19 in Africa report was published on 24th April 2020 [2]. This report proposed a prioritization list for research and development for the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa. The findings were that African researchers largely supported the WHO Roadmap research priorities, but also identified a list of additional sub-priorities of relevance to the African health and research environment. The landscape of Covid-19 research needs and research outputs continues to change [3] with possibilities of research breakthroughs [4] converting into significant reported find-ings [5] in some areas. There needs to be a concerted effort to continually review the priorities for Covid-19 research and development as events unfold. The AAS in partnership with AUDA NEPAD, together with The Global Health Network (TGHN) and The United Kingdom Collaborative on Devel-opment Research (UKCDR) therefore conducted a survey to update the initial list of priorities identified in Africa. This updated list will promote the use of funding to currently rele-vant global priorities, with particular consideration to LMICs as designated in the World Bank list [6]. In this report we present a summary of results for respons-es from researchers across the African continent