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Trials of a vaccine to prevent nasopharyngeal cancer will start soon in China, where it mainly affects the Cantonese-speaking population.

Vaccines for non-infectious illness could help developing nations tackle the growing burden of chronic disease. Maryke Steffens reports.

Priya Shetty explores the truths and the myths about chronic diseases in the developing world.

Abdallah S. Daar speaks to SciDev.Net about the Grand Challenges in Chronic Non-communicable Diseases initiative.

Priorities for research into mental illness in the developing world are not the same as those in the West, writes Katherine Nightingale.

The new vaccines against cervical cancer hold out big hopes for a cure — but will poor countries get them fast enough? Jon Cohen reports.

Nozipho Mthembu reports how scientists at University of Cape Town are using genetically altered tobacco plants to create vaccines against cervical cancer.