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. 2011:9:42.
doi: 10.4314/pamj.v9i1.71221. Epub 2011 Aug 23.

One of a kind--the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry, a regional registry for Africa

Amber L Abrams  1
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One of a kind--the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry, a regional registry for Africa

Amber L Abrams. Pan Afr Med J. 2011.

Abstract

The 2004 Ministerial Summit on Health Research called on the World Health Organization to to establish a registry network with the intention of providing a single access point to identify trials. In 2007 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors amended their support of this initiative stating that only trials registered prospectively on a member registry of the WHO's Network of Primary Registers would be published. The Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (www.pactr.org), was established in early 2007 as the AIDS, TB and Malaria (ATM) Clinical Trials Registry with the aim of piloting the concept of a registry that would cater to the specific needs of African trialists. In 2009 the ATM Registry expanded its remit to include all diseases for all regions of Africa; The Pan African Clinical Trials Registry became the first and is presently the only African member of the World Health Organization's Network of Primary Registers.

Keywords: Clinical Trial Registration; Primary Register Network; Registry; publication bias; transparency.

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Total trial applications by disease type
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Locations of registered trial sites
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