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Arsenic: when will the clean water start flowing?
Many new technologies have promised to remove arsenic from drinking water but little has changed on the ground, finds T. V. Padma.
FEATURE | 24 November 2009 | EN
Q&A: Health systems innovation with Gill Samuels
Gill Samuels of the Global Forum for Health Research tells SciDev.Net why health innovation must include health systems research.
FEATURE | 20 November 2009 | EN
Study reviews dengue vaccine candidates
A new study has evaluated the 12 potential vaccines against dengue fever, discussing the challenges facing their development.
FEATURE | 3 November 2009 | ES
Roadblocks on the path to GM superfoods
Nutrient-rich foods could combat malnutrition — but getting from the lab to the plate is proving a challenge.
Climate change and insect-borne disease: Facts and figures
Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.
Climate complexities stoke disease controversies
Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.
Back to basics in HIV research
Many HIV vaccines and microbicides have failed clinical trials and HIV researchers say the field needs to get back to basics.
Swine flu: The view from the WHO
The WHO director-general on the first pandemic in four decades and the battle to get drugs and vaccines to the developing world.
Chagas disease: The lost century
It is a hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease — and in some ways it has been a lost century, say campaigners.
FEATURE | 17 July 2009 | EN
Floating toilets may cut river illnesses
Persuading Cambodian river-dwellers to use a newly designed floating toilet instead of the river could cut soaring diarrhoea rates.
FEATURE | 14 July 2009 | EN
The pros and cons of GM mosquitoes
A proposal for tackling dengue fever has caused controversy because it would involve releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild.
FEATURE | 30 June 2009 | EN
Q&A: Tadataka Yamada and wild science ideas
The executive director of the Gates Foundation tells SciDev.Net why he is throwing conventional research proposals into the bin.
Massive potential in miniature microscopes
A tiny solar-powered microscope with no lens could be a cheap and disposable alternative for malaria diagnosis
FEATURE | 8 June 2009 | EN
US investment in Southern science is 'good diplomacy'
The United States should invest in developing-world health and science for diplomatic and ethical reasons, argues one of its top science advisers.
Spotting the animal bugs that could shift to humans
Scientists are monitoring people at risk of catching diseases from animals, in the hope of preventing a pandemic
New ideas in the war against tuberculosis
As tuberculosis strains that are resistant to all known drugs continue to emerge, scientists are trying new approaches to drug development.
The search for a polio-vanquishing vaccine
Polio is still with us, and scientists are having to rethink vaccination strategies for developing countries in the hope of eradication.
FEATURE | 12 February 2009 | EN
Profit from poverty: Turning victims into consumers
A Danish company is proving that there is profit to be made in making products for the poor, including a 'straw' that makes water drinkable.
FEATURE | 6 February 2009 | EN
Texting for TB: Mobile phones and drug adherence
Text messaging to ensure that TB patients in developing countries take their medication every day is showing promise in trials.
FEATURE | 8 January 2009 | EN
Global trials fall short on ethical standards
Developing countries are attractive places to run clinical trials, but in many places ethical oversight falls short.
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
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