Science and Development Network
News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world
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With increasing resistance to existing antibiotics, developing countries face a serious challenge in safeguarding their populations' health against killer diseases such as TB and typhoid fever.
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Opinions and Analysis
Biomed Analysis: End complacency on drug resistance
Controversy has pressed India into action to tackle antibiotic resistance. Now other countries must do the same, says Priya Shetty.
21 April 2011
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BioMed Analysis: Joining forces against TB
A partnership involving the US Food and Drug Administration may speed up delivery of new tuberculosis drug combinations, says Priya Shetty.
News and Features
Parasites hint at antimalarial resistance in Africa
Laboratory tests have revealed resistance to artemisinin in malaria parasites from Africa but the effect in the field is still unknown.
28 May 2012
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Sleeping sickness drug resistance mechanism identified
A genetic screening study may help design better sleeping sickness drugs and avoid growing drug resistance.
India faces totally drug-resistant TB
19 January 2012
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