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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
Vaccinating against 'Cantonese cancer'
Trials of a vaccine to prevent nasopharyngeal cancer will start soon in China, where it mainly affects the Cantonese-speaking population.
Therapeutic vaccines: a new hope for chronic diseases?
Vaccines for non-infectious illness could help developing nations tackle the growing burden of chronic disease. Maryke Steffens reports.
Chronic diseases: Facts and figures
Priya Shetty explores the truths and the myths about chronic diseases in the developing world.
Q&A: Grand challenges in chronic diseases
Abdallah S. Daar speaks to SciDev.Net about the Grand Challenges in Chronic Non-communicable Diseases initiative.
Mental health research: Falling through the gaps
Priorities for research into mental illness in the developing world are not the same as those in the West, writes Katherine Nightingale.
The HPV vaccine: a long wait for the developing world?
The new vaccines against cervical cancer hold out big hopes for a cure — but will poor countries get them fast enough? Jon Cohen reports.
FEATURE | 29 April 2005 | EN
Tobacco plants could yield cancer vaccine
Nozipho Mthembu reports how scientists at University of Cape Town are using genetically altered tobacco plants to create vaccines against cervical cancer.
FEATURE | 18 March 2004 | EN
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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
