About us

ADP works to ensure that people in low- and middle-income countries have access to life-saving health technologies – medicines, vaccines and diagnostic tools – with an emphasis on those technologies that address tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases.

The partners

ADP brings together the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and PATH in a unique partnership that helps identify and strengthen capacity gaps in low- and middle-income countries in an innovative and integrated way.

Strengthening national health systems

In line with the overarching approach of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ADP adopts a systemic and integrated perspective towards health system strengthening, aimed at the interlinked targets of eliminating communicable and infectious diseases and achieving real progress towards universal health coverage.

Supporting national responses to COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of ensuring equitable access to health services, as well as increasing availability of medicines, vaccines and diagnostic tools in response to established and emerging health threats.

Regional, global and
South-South cooperation

Focusing on common challenges across different health systems, ADP leverages the experiences and expertise of its network of stakeholders to deliver both policy lessons and technical solutions.

Focus countries

ADP collaborates with stakeholders in a number of focus countries – Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Senegal, United Republic of Tanzania and Thailand
– to implement a range of capacity-strengthening interventions, which are in line with the ADP strategic approach of leveraging the expertise of its four core partners and working across sectors to help strengthen and harmonize policies, regulations and systems, as well as build the capacities of key people and institutions.

Uniting Efforts

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how close collaboration among multiple stakeholders can overcome major hurdles to the development, approval and delivery of new medicines, vaccines and diagnostic tools. But opportunities for such intense collaboration are rare, and access to new health technologies remains uneven.

Knowledge products

ADP knowledge products advance learning and contribute to improved policies, programmes and practices, as well as demonstrate human impact on the ground.

TDR Implementation research toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help teams conduct implementation research projects through a standard process to ensure reliable, high-quality results.

COVID-19 diagnostics procurement resource

An interactive tool to support procurement decisions by aggregating and streamlining publicly available information about the technical specifications, regulatory status and supply of COVID-19 diagnostic tests.

A pipeline analysis of new products for malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases

This working paper provides a comprehensive survey of new medicines, diagnostics and vaccines for malaria, TB and selected NTDs, that are currently in the pipeline for market entry by 2020.

Digital Health for Development Hub

A one-stop shop with technical, advisory and partnership support for scaling up digital health solutions.

News

Scientists from TDR visit KHRC

Posted July 20, 2016 By KHRC

KHRC was privileged to host a team of renowned scientists from TDR (Dr Olumide Ogundahunsi and Dr Tuoyo Okorosobo). They were accompanied by Dr. Margaret Gyapong, Director of the Dodowa Health Research Centre (DHRC).

TDR as part of the UNDP/WHO/PATH Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) has been working with the Research and Development Directorate of the Ghana Health Service to build capacity for Implementation research (IR) as part of its strategy to improve access and delivery of interventions against malaria, TB and the NTDs.

The ADP through TDR supported part of the process that led to the Ghana National Health Research Agenda (2015 – 2018) document. They also supported a series of implementation research training workshops that led to the development of IR proposals, some barriers to effective control of malaria, TB, Yaws and Buruli ulcer in Dangme west district and the Greater Accra region in general.

Paramount on the list of issues deliberated upon during their two-day visit to KHRC were discussions around the need for Implementation research (IR) , extending the Implementation Research capacity building activities to Kintampo in the middle belt of Ghana and the vast opportunities IR presents among others.

The visitors also took a tour around the Centre (KHRC) as part of their visit. At an evening cocktail meeting with senior staff of KHRC, members of the visiting team took turns to express their views concerning the current state of KHRC in terms of the kind of quality facilities, research and caliber of staff the team met on the job during the tour.

While praising the hardworking staff of the Centre the team also saw a visionary leader in the director of the KHRC who is most of the time able to “create big opportunities out of little ones unfolding” to keep the Centre running as one of the vibrant African-based research centres of excellence

The team has since left with a promise to always return to support in building on this new initiative.

This news story was originally posted onKintampo Health Research Centre site: http://www.kintampo-hrc.org/kintampo/index.php/22-news-updates/33-tdr-visits-khrc

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