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Improving the lives of HIV-infected orphans in Zambia

Tags: SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

In 2003, a woman with AIDS, seven months pregnant and living in a bus terminal in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, was found by nuns and brought to a shelter. After delivering the baby, physician Tim Meade and a team

Leading the way with Hinari

Tags: SDG10 Reduced Inequalities, SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

Changing behaviours in learning, research, teaching and patient care transforms output and treatment. When the World Health Organization held its first HINARI training programmes in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2002, librarian Grace Ada Ajuwon was there. “I was among

Embracing Research4Life

Tags: SDG10 Reduced Inequalities, SDG4 Quality Education

Mastering e-resources, Fredrick Otike promotes Research4Life as an expert information specialist. As a young student growing up in a remote village in southwest Kenya, Fredrick’s secondary school lacked electricity and running water, not to mention a library and science laboratory.

Pioneering at Makerere

Tags: SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

Research output at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences has helped raise the University’s overall ranking to 9th in Africa. Dr. Alison Kinengyere facilitating a workshop on finding and using health information. Library Information Science was a new course

Boosting a Young Democracy

Tags: SDG16 Peace, Justice and Strong Insitutions, SDG4 Quality Education

Maldives National University’s new Postgraduate Research Centre will use Research4Life to build capacity and help educate the young democracy’s future scientists and policy makers. Shaba Shabana giving a training on HINARI at the Maldives National University. The Maldives National University

From entomologist to agricultural librarian

Tags: SDG15, SDG4 Quality Education

Becoming a master trainer equipped Onan Mulumba, agricultural librarian at Makarere University to fuel evidence-based agricultural research and innovation in Uganda.

A librarian by passion and profession

Tags: SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

Cynthia Kimani embeds Research4Life training and usage across the ten campuses of the Kenyan Medical Research Institute, ramping up research output and proving the library is a digital backbone of research. A decade ago, when Cynthia Kimani began work at

‘Making a Difference’: Where Are They Now? – Dr. Tewodros Tilahun

Tags: SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

Transforming Patient Care in the Developing World How access to online medical research is shaping the future of CURE Ethiopia Children’s Hospital In 2011, we heard the inspirational stories of some of the individuals who rely on the Research4Life programmes everyday

Researchers and Farmers in Burkina Faso Benefit from Research4Life’s AGORA Programme

Tags: SDG10 Reduced Inequalities

As one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso regularly suffers from drought, poor soil, lack of adequate communications and other infrastructure, a low literacy rate, and a stagnant economy. With 80% of the population relying on the

Sumawa Project in Kenya’s Rift Valley OARE case study

Tags: SDG13 Climate Action

Aided by access to research, through the Research4Life initiative, the SUMAWA project is having an impressive impact on the local community, endangered tribes and wildlife in the area. The Ogiek tribe in Kenya is endangered: the forest, their natural environment,

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