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‘Making a Difference’: Where Are They Now? – Dr. Tim Meade
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Tiny Tim & Friends (TTF) in Lusaka, Zambia How access to scientific literature crucially improves the lives of affected children, adolescents and pregnant women from some of the most economically deprived compounds in Lusaka, Zambia.By Nina Elsemueller Four years ago
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A librarian working with doctors to save lives
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In this new video, we follow Nasra Gathoni for a day in her job as Librarian at the Aga Kahn University library.
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‘Making a Difference’: Where Are They Now? – Geoffrey Salanje
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Since registering for Research4Life in 2004, staff and students at Bunda College of Agriculture have benefited from free access to high-quality scientific information in support of more than 20 academic programs.
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How Research4Life helped a physiotherapist find better ways to treat his patients
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Physiotherapist Mulugeta Bayisa’s experience with Research4Life’s Hinari programme has helped him find better ways to treat his patients and teach his students. More than that, though, it has changed the way he thinks. Watch this video to find out more. Mulugeta
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A researcher in Burkina Faso finds what he needed to lift his work to international standards
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Until September 2008, Sami Hyacinthe Kambire, an agronomist in Burkina Faso’s Institute for Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA by its French acronym), was a frustrated researcher. Although part of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, INERA, like most research
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Advancing the standard of medical research means saving more lives for this hospital in Nepal
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In his role as a paediatrician at Kathmandu’s Shree Birendra Hospital, Arun Neopane is a voracious consumer of journal papers. This passion led to his appointment in 2003 as the hospital’s Officer in Charge and editor of the Journal of
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On the front lines of research
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Uganda’s largest institution of higher learning boosts usage of evidence-based information through Research4Life. As a young student, Caroline Kobusingye was planning a career in counseling. “My passion is to help people and I thought that was the best way to
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Access to Hinari is critical at CURE Ethiopia Children’s Hospital
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Without Research4Life’s HINARI programme, a young cancer sufferer at CURE Ethiopia Children’s Hospital would have lost one of her legs. In July 2010, a 22-year-old university student arrived at the CURE Ethiopia Children’s Hospital with a painful, swollen leg. She
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Through HINARI, research and teaching at the University of Lubumbashi has flourished
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Since gaining access to Research4Life’s HINARI programme, research and teaching at the University of Lubumbashi has flourished The University of Lubumbashi’s School of Public Health is one of the most productive health research institutes in the Democratic Republic of the
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Unlocking the door to world-leading science
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By unlocking the door to world-leading science, Research4Life has helped Gamal Khalafalla Mohamed Ali lead Sudan’s shift from short-term policy decisions to evidence-based policy-making that considers the long-term health interests of the Sudanese people. As Director General of Sudan’s Central
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AGORA allows Bunda College of Agriculture community to look for agricultural information
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Research4Life’s AGORA programme allows Bunda College of Agriculture to help not only staff and students but anybody in Malawi looking for agricultural information. As head of the library at Bunda College of Agriculture, Geoffrey F. Salanje provides information in support
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Hinari enables Nguyen Duc Chinh to help patients and medical students at one of Viet Nam’s leading hospitals
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Knowledge gained though Research4Life’s HINARI programme is enabling Nguyen Duc Chinh to help patients, medical students and his workmates at one of Viet Nam’s leading hospitals. Viet Duc hospital is the leading surgical centre in Viet Nam. It has 900
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