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View Post: Smart Investments in AIDS and Global Health: Building on What ...
3 hours ago by amfAR  
It is drawn from a report co-produced by amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) and The Center for Global Health Policy of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. A full copy of the report including all tables, ..... Create incentives for different health service delivery networks, including PEPFAR, TB control programs, and Neglected Tropical Disease service sites to work collaboratively to maximize cost-effective, high-quality delivery of multiple health services. ...
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View Post: doomsday seed vaults in the artic - Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan ...
29 Nov 2009 by kweku,afro olmec  
... and Ford Foundation-created international research centers, the IITA for tropical agriculture, Nigeria, and IRRI for rice, Philippines, combined to form a global Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR). .... Indeed, the entire Svalbard enterprise and the people involved call up the worst catastrophe images of the Michael Crichton bestseller, Andromeda Strain, a sci-fi thriller where a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin causes rapid, ...
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View Post: Knowledge Resource Center - the GIPB website - 2009-11-09 ...
23 Nov 2009
The team will collaborate with researchers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in applying these genetic markers toward identifying resistance to Cassava Brown Streak Disease. All of the information and tools the project develops will ... The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is a not-for-profit organization that works to reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human health in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture. ...
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View Post: Twelfth Bough: bringing home the bacon
28 Nov 2009 by A. Peasant  
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon launch experiments designed to combine the H5N1 virus and human flu viruses and then see how the resulting hybrids affect animals. The goal is to assess the chances that such a .... Lance K. Gordon, ImmunoBiologics Corp. Jaap Goudsmit, Crucell; Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dan Granoff, Oakland Research Institute; Oakland, California USA Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; London, UK ...
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View Post: Genome sequence. Cassava. “… cassava is used for industrial starch ...
11 Nov 2009 by info@sujanani.com  
Cassava has poor nutritional content and is susceptible to many pathogens, particularly in Africa, where one third of the continental harvest is lost each year to viral diseases. One of these, Cassava Brown Streak Disease, .... The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is a not-for-profit organization that works to reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human health in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture. ...
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View Post: Low-tech Approach Stifles High-risk Nipah Virus - Science News
21 Nov 2009 by scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)  
In so doing, the low-tech devices may prevent the spread of lethal Nipah virus, researchers in Bangladesh report at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. ... is basically a bat virus that occasionally spills over into other animals, including Homo sapiens,” says study coauthor Stephen Luby, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh in Dhaka. ...
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View Post: Experts examine possible links between climate change and ...
22 Nov 2009 by NewsProvider  
An emerging body of evidence suggests that the changing global climate is already affecting infectious disease transmission patterns. As noted in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ... The symposium included several evidence-based presentations by speakers from the US Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Columbia University's International Research Institute on the established effects of climate ...
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View Post: News: Research calls for better assessment of tests for ...
16 Nov 2009 by McGill University  
This study was funded by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). ... Located in Montreal, Quebec, the institute is the research arm of the MUHC, the university health center affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The institute supports over 600 researchers, nearly 1200 graduate and post-doctoral students and ...
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View Post: Studies: Fighting Global Warming Reduces Diseases
25 Nov 2009 by The Huffington Post News Team  
"Here are ways you can attack major health problems at the same time as dealing with climate change," said lead author Dr. Paul Wilkinson, an environmental epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The calculations are based on proposals that would cut global ... WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are investigating e-mails stolen from a British climate change research center that they say show scientists attempting to suppress data that. ...
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View Post: iNews, Earth: Food Security and Climate Change: A Call for ...
18 Nov 2009 by Frank A Hilario  
Research Scientist Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Crop Science, Agri-Food Canada * Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame, 2002. Ruben Echeverria, Uruguay * Director General, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) ...
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