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Nigeria must increase funding for health research Brian/AFP via Getty Images

August 15, 2021

Nigerian health research needs more regular funding

Friday Okonofua, University of Benin

More funding is needed to galvanise Nigeria’s health system as medical research is not well funded.

Tsimane children look out over the Maniqui River, in the Bolivian Amazon. Michael Gurven

October 28, 2020

People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ – even in the Bolivian Amazon

Michael Gurven, University of California, Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California, Santa Barbara

‘Normal’ body temperature has declined in urban, industrialized settings like the US and UK. Anthropologists find the trend extends to Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon – but why?

India boasts strong research expertise and technological and pharmaceutical capacity, yet lacks strong financial and political commitment from the government - to end the tuberculosis epidemic. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

October 3, 2017

India’s ambitious new plan to conquer TB needs cash and commitment

Madhukar Pai, McGill University

India has a radical new plan to eliminate TB, backed by research and technological expertise. The country just needs strong financial and political commitment from government to implement it.

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Madhukar Pai
Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
Thomas Kraft
Postdoctoral Scholar in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Gurven
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday Okonofua
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Benin

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