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Latest on Rio+20

We track the news on science, technology and the Rio+20 Earth Summit

Rights-based agenda

A women's rights focus in health policy and research needs to be revived, argues Priya Shetty

From GM crops to forestry

Learn more about the challenges of feeding our growing population versus caring for our planet
Holding HIV drugs - UNAIDS

Cheaper testing

A predictive tool could reduce the cost of CD4 tests for people receiving HIV drugs
New meningitis vaccine delivered in Burkina Faso - Flickr/PATH/courtesy of WHO

Health R&D needs translation

A report looking at a decade of US health R&D funding says more effort is needed to move from lab to field
A mother with a child - Flickr/ Gates Foundation

Newborn care

A WHO report says simple techniques could keep the majority of preterm babies alive