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    Spectrum-Malaria: a user-friendly projection tool for health impact assessmen...

    Background Scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment needs to continue but national strategies and budget allocations are not always evidence-based. This article presents a...
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    Infection of ectocervical tissue and universal targeting of T-cells mediated ...

    Background HIV-1 variants carrying non-macrophage-tropic HIV-1 R5 envelopes (Envs) are predominantly transmitted and persist in immune tissue even in AIDS patients who have...
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    Chile : Toward a Cohesive and Well Governed National Innovation System

    Chile is increasingly looking to innovation as a pillar of its competitiveness and an engine of growth to close the income gap with the Organization for...
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    The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications...

    Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries...
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    Population sensitivity of acute flaccid paralysis and environmental surveilla...

    Background To support poliomyelitis eradication in Pakistan, environmental surveillance (ES) of wastewater has been expanded alongside surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis...
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    A discrete choice experiment to assess patients’ preferences for HIV treatmen...

    "Aim: To elicit patients’ preferences for HIV treatment of the rural population in Colombia. Methods: A discrete choice experiment (DCE), conducted in a HIV clinic in Bogotá,...
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    How Can We Get Close to Zero? The Potential Contribution of Biomedical Preven...

    BACKGROUND: In 2011 an Investment Framework was proposed that described how the scale-up of key HIV interventions could dramatically reduce new HIV infections and deaths in low...
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    Good continuum of HIV care in Belgium despite weaknesses in retention and lin...

    The Belgian HIV epidemic is largely concentrated among men who have sex with men and Sub-Saharan Africans. We studied the continuum of HIV care of those diagnosed with HIV...
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    Household level spatio-temporal analysis of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmod...

    Background The global decline of malaria burden and goals for elimination has led to an increased interest in the fine-scale epidemiology of malaria. Micro-geographic...
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    Bibliometric trends of health economic evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Background Collaboration between Sub-Saharan African researchers is important for the generation and transfer of health technology assessment (HTA) evidence, in order to support...
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    Bacterial microbiota associated with Rhipicephalus sanguineus (s.l.) ticks fr...

    Background Ticks of the group Rhipicephalus sanguineus (sensu lato) are distributed worldwide and are major pathogen vectors of both dogs and humans. Previous phylogenetic...
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    A discrete choice experiment to assess patients’ preferences for HIV treatmen...

    Aim: This study aimed to assess patients’ preferences for HIV treatment in an urban Colombian population. Methods: A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) was conducted. Urban...
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    The Impact of Business Support Services for Small and Medium Enterprises on F...

    Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises are popular among policy makers, given the role small and medium enterprises play in job...
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    Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Reso...

    This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the...
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    Green growth, technology and innovation

    The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for developing countries. The key...
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    Using Locational Data from Mobile Phones to Enhance the Science of Delivery

    The objective of this report is to examine the potential of locational data for the 'science of delivery' in the field of development. The...
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    Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of ...

    Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay...
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    Review of National and Regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart ...

    The report provides a brief summary of the existing Third Research and Innovation Strategy (RSI3s) and specifies the complementary activities that need...
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    Promoting Enterprise-led Innovation in China

    China has made remarkable gains in industrialization and development. Over the past three decades, it has maintained gross domestic product (GDP)...
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    Technological Learning and Innovation : Climbing a Tall Ladder

    As the global stock of ideas expands and diffuses across and within countries, technological learning is poised to become an even more important...