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All applicants for Global Fund grants should now include robust tuberculosis interventions in their HIV/AIDS proposals and HIV/AIDS interventions in their tuberculosis proposals, the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as an outcome of its Eighteenth Board Meeting, agreed last Saturday.

A United Nations programme aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests and boosting livelihoods in tropical nations has approved $18 million in support of five pilot countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

There is need for Algeria to create a national environmental health plan based mainly on the analysis of ecological data and the definition of pollution risks and the modernisation of preventive medicine, a leading researcher said recently.

Habtamu Bayera Madessa, an Ethiopian student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is about to launch a solar-powered technology that could move the world community from dependency on gas or oil.

HIV has spread quickly through southern Africa because historic traditions such as polygamy have found their way into the present under the guise of new trends.

Tanzanian health institutions are set to run joint trials for a HIV/AIDS vaccine known as DNA-MVA. The three, the National Medical Research Institute (NIMR), the Mbeya based Mbeya Medical Research Programme (MMRP) and the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) are to conduct  trials beginning March aimed at establishing the vaccine’s strength in producing body defenses or immune responses against HIV.