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Collaboration requires a strong home base

Developing-world scientists should make every effort to pursue careers at home – and their governments should help them, says Mohamed Hassan.

14 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Stable support needed for African malaria networks

African malaria research networks have helped scientists combat the disease, but they need more stable support and longer-term funding, says Thomas Egwang.

14 May 2008 | EN

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China and India set the pace in South–South cooperation

Renewed political commitment means China and India could set the pace for bilateral South–South collaboration, say Purnima Rupal and Dinesh Abrol.

14 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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UNAIDS out of touch and should be closed down

The UN programme for HIV/AIDS is out of touch with reality and hindering health capacity building, argues Roger England.

Source: BMJ

12 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Ignoring hypertensive disease a travesty

Hypertensive disease kills large numbers in developing countries, but efforts to tackle it are lacking, say Stephen MacMahon and colleagues.

Source: The Lancet

7 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Vaccine success signals rethink in pneumonia care

Successful vaccination against the main causes of pneumonia will complicate care of remaining cases, say J. Anthony G. Scott and Mike English.

Source: PLoS Medicine

1 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Citizen scientists an untapped resource

Volunteer citizen scientists are an important resource — particularly for developing countries, argue Nigel Winser and Raghu Saxena.

25 April 2008 | EN

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Eliminating blinding trachoma 'entirely possible'

Elimination of blinding trachoma is entirely possible by 2020, says the New England Journal of Medicine.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

24 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Developing world science strengthens US innovation

By tapping into the increase in developing country scientists, US innovators could reinforce their market positions, says G. Pascal Zachary.

Source: The New York Times

22 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Food crop diversity is key to sustainability

Thousands of traditional crop species could help break dependence on a few global food crops, and offer valuable environmental services, says Monty Jones.

17 April 2008 | EN

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Current malaria policy 'needs reconsideration'

Malaria policy needs to be changed if WHO targets are to be met, warn Ephantus J. Muturi, Peter Burgess and Robert J. Novak.

Source: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

17 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Research deficiencies 'delaying HIV prevention'

Weaknesses in HIV research design have hindered progress in identifying prevention strategies, say Stephen W. Lagakos and Alicia R. Gable.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

16 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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'Glocal' approach makes global knowledge local

Science should go 'glocal', integrating global with local knowledge, if it is to reach diverse ethnic communities, says Julia Tagüeña.

10 April 2008 | EN

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Thursday, a cure for AIDS; Friday, a cure for asthma

Better education, effective communication and dissemination of information could quell dangerous pseudoscience, argues George Claassen.

3 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Climate assumptions 'optimistic at best'

The UN has underestimated the technological challenges of stemming carbon emissions, say Roger Pielke Jr, Tom Wigley and Christopher Green.

Source: Nature

3 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Stable funding system needed for neglected diseases

Peter J. Hotez believes the establishment of a new financing mechanism is vital for the control and eradication of neglected diseases.

Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

31 March 2008 | EN | 中文

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Priorities for controlling urban dengue

Amy C. Morrison and colleagues outline key preventative measures for controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads disease.

Source: PLoS Medicine

27 March 2008 | EN | ES | 中文

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Change in Protected Area categories needed

Luigi Boitani argues that a change in the classification of protected areas is needed to help preservation efforts.

Source: PLoS Biology

27 March 2008 | EN | 中文

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Prizes, not prices, to stimulate antibiotic R&D

With the worldwide growth of resistance, new antibiotics are increasingly needed. But R&D can be expensive and time-consuming, says James Love.

26 March 2008 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

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Reducing antibiotics not enough to stem resistance

Reducing antibiotic use is not enough to curb the rise of resistance in the developing world, say Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Syed Rehan Ali.

26 March 2008 | EN | ES | FR | 中文