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24 Feb 2011

Funding research into the infectious diseases of poverty: what happens now?

The latest G-FINDER report says that funding for basic scientific research has increased but finances available for product development have fallen. How can funders determine where the greatest needs lie and work more closely together?
Source: TropIKA.net
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27 Oct 2010

Verbal autopsy is not well suited to estimating malaria deaths

A verbal autopsy study in India has produced an extraordinarily high estimate of the number of people who die from malaria.
Source: TropIKA.net
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19 Aug 2010

Why transport is crucial for strengthening health systems

An international non-profit organization has developed methods of supporting large numbers of vehicles operating over large areas of hostile territory in such a way that they do not break down.
Source: TropIKA.net
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15 Jan 2010

Disease control in Haiti after the earthquake

The burden of infectious disease in Haiti is already the worst in the Americas region. Will this new disaster disrupt long-term efforts to bring these diseases under control?
Source: TropIKA.net
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8 Jan 2010

Drug procurement, the Global Fund and misguided competition policies

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria stands accused of setting competitive tendering ahead of drug quality or consistency of supply.
Source: Malaria Journal
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9 Dec 2009

Where is health on the climate change agenda?

As the climate change conference kicks off in Copenhagen this week, is global health just a side issue?
Source: TropIKA.net
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27 Jul 2009

Focusing on Quality Patient Care in the New Global Subsidy for Malaria Medicines

Support for the new AMFm initiative, but some words of caution.
Source: PLoS Medicine
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21 Jul 2009

Access to antimalarial therapy: accurate diagnosis is essential to achieving long term goals

It is becoming increasingly important to find improved ways of diagnosing malaria.
Source: BMJ
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13 Jul 2009

Quinine monotherapy for treating uncomplicated malaria in the era of artemisinin-based combination therapy: an appropriate public health policy?

An article calls on African countries to change their national guidelines on second-line malaria treatment.
Source: Lancet Infectious Diseases
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7 Jul 2009

Interaction of malaria and HIV in Africa

The two infections interact biologically, and in terms of their combined impact on health systems. It is not therefore appropriate to address them through separate, “vertical” control programmes.
Source: BMJ
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