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Mozambique trains officials in Portugal to oversee clinical trials

By , based on Agência de Informação de Moçambique

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Mozambican health professionals are undergoing training in Portugal on the assessment, regulation and oversight of clinical trials, focusing on participant safety and international good practices. The programme, also aimed at Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, ended on 13 November in Lisbon, according to Mozambican diplomat Aristides Adriano.

Mozambican health professionals are undergoing training in Portugal to strengthen their skills in assessing, regulating and overseeing clinical trials conducted in Mozambique. Aristides Adriano, a diplomat at the Mozambican embassy in Portugal, described the programme as a way to strengthen participant safety and the application of international good practices, according to Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM).

The training took place in Lisbon, Setúbal and Porto with participants from Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. The Mozambican professionals are learning in particular about authorisation, assessment, safety monitoring and trial inspection procedures at INFARMED, the Portuguese medicines authority, while researchers are working with the Nova Clinical Research Unit in Lisbon and hospital establishments in Setúbal, AIM reports.

The Mozambican delegation includes officials from the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (ANARME), members of the National Bioethics Commission and researchers. The training also covers the ethical review of studies by the Portuguese Ethics Committee for Clinical Research, according to Aristides Adriano and AIM.

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