Science and Development Network
News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world
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A rising generics industry in developing nations is helping secure access to cheap drugs for the world's poor. But controversies over patent rules could divert investment from already neglected diseases.
(Photo credit: WHO/TDR/Crump)
Opinions and Analysis
Research needed to tackle neglected disease uncertainties
The revised malaria death toll suggests a need for research into uncertainties in controlling neglected tropical diseases, says Mark Booth.
7 February 2012
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Source: New Statesman
Biomed Analysis: Learning from India's polio success
India's carefully targeted strategy against polio holds lessons for other countries, and for other diseases, argues Priya Shetty.
31 January 2012
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Redesign trials to integrate Asian, Western medicine
4 January 2012
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Source: Nature
Policy Briefs
Controlling insect pests with GM technology
Genetically modified insects provide a new method for controlling insect-borne diseases and agricultural insect pests.
8 July 2010
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Source: The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
Policies to tackle HIV/AIDS
Reducing the global burden of HIV/AIDS relies on increased funding, more research and targeted prevention strategies.
1 December 2009
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Source: Health Affairs
News and Features
Drug could hit two neglected diseases at once
A drug undergoing clinical trials for sleeping sickness could also treat leishmaniasis, say researchers who have tested it on mice.
6 February 2012
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Panama is first to benefit from fund to tackle biopiracy
A bioprospecting project in Panama is the first to be funded by the Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund.
Meningitis B vaccine trial ‘a success’ in Chile
31 January 2012
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