Translation of "Programme des essais par les utilisateurs " (French → English) :

Testing programmes involving animals, required for certain higher volume substances need to be agreed with the competent authorities before the experiments start, to ensure that the endpoints studied are relevant, that the scientific validity of the research is sufficiently high, and finally to ensure that the testing programme is not duplicating other studies.

In respect to the timetable for the implementation of trials under the European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Programme (ECDTP), when are the first trials funded under the partnership likely to take place, and has there been further confirmation of the Member States' contribution?

Research will focus on: developing promising candidate interventions (vaccines, therapies and HIV microbicides) against the target diseases by sponsoring research over the full spectrum from basic molecular research, taking advantage of microbial genomics, through to pre-clinical testing and proof-of-principle; establishing a clinical trials programme to unite and support Europe"s clinical trial activities specifically targeted at interventions for use in developing countries; establishing an AIDS Therapy Trials Network in Europe to improve the coherence and complementarity of clinical trials of AIDS therapies for European use.

Research will focus on: developing promising candidate interventions (vaccines, therapies and HIV microbicides and evaluation criteria on the various interventions and the effects on public health ) against the target diseases by sponsoring research over the full spectrum from basic molecular research, taking advantage of microbial genomics, through to pre-clinical testing and proof-of-principle; establishing a clinical trials programme to unite and support Europe"s clinical trial activities specifically targeted at interventions for use in developing countries; establishing an AIDS Prevention (vaccines) and Therapy Trials Network in E ...[+++]urope to improve the coherence and complementarity of clinical trials of AIDS therapies for European use.

Research will focus on: developing promising candidate interventions (vaccines, therapies and HIV microbicides and evaluation criteria on the various interventions and public health impact) against the target diseases by sponsoring research over the full spectrum from basic molecular research, taking advantage of microbial genomics, through to pre-clinical testing and proof-of-principle; establishing a clinical trials programme to unite and support Europe’s clinical trial activities specifically targeted at interventions for use in developing countries; establishing an AIDS Prevention (vaccines) and Therapy Trials Network in Europe to ...[+++]improve the coherence and complementarity of clinical trials of AIDS therapies for European use.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Commission of the European Community, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) in Japan, and the Program for Alternative Fluorocarbon Toxicity Testing (PAFT), an international consortium of producer companies, today announced their common understanding on the testing needed to assess the safety of an important class of chemicals being developed as substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).