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Strengthening management at district level to support the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (PERFORM2scale) (Perform 2 scale)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2021,

The new challenge in global health is to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC) by 2030. Having an adequate workforce is critical to achieving UHC. Efforts are in place to scale up the numbers of health workers. Improving health workforce performance is equally important as the quantity of health workers, but more challenging. Workforce performance improvement can be achieved better at management ...
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Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART)

Date du début: 1 mars 2016, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2020,

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and glo ...
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Parasite population genomics and functional studies towards development of a blood stage malaria vaccine (GENINVADE)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2012, Date de fin: 30 juin 2017,

"An effective malaria vaccine is needed, particularly against P. falciparum as this species causes more human mortality than all other eukaryotic pathogens combined. An understanding of natural selection operating on parasites in local endemic populations can enable understanding of core molecular mechanisms of global relevance. The objectives are to- Advance understanding of alternative pathways ...
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Vaccination against Shigella and ETEC: novel antigens, novel approaches (STOPENTERICS)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2010, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2017,

To contribute to the development of vaccines against Shigella and ETEC for children of the developing world, STOPENTERICS will provide novel solutions by imposing a two-fold paradigm switch: (i) to break the dogma of serotype-specificity by inducing a cross-protective immunity (ii) to improve the immunogenicity of Shigella glycoconjugates by using synthetic oligosacharides mimicking the lipopolysa ...
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Enhancing Knowledge for Renewed Policies against Poverty (NOPOOR)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mars 2017,

NOPOOR aims to build new knowledge on the nature and extent of poverty in developing countries to provide policymakers with a broader understanding of poverty. We believe that poverty cannot be tackled without a comprehensive approach. We know that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, but NOPOOR will explore new and uncharted dimensions. It is not just a picture of poverty, but also an unders ...
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Building Academic Freedom And Democracy In Africa (BAFADIA)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,

...at institutional, rather than subject, level this project will generate greater intercontinental collaboration across a wide range of academic disciplines, via increases in the number of EU-African university collaborations."
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Enabling the exploitation of Insects as a Sustainable Source of Protein for Animal Feed and Human Nutrition (PROTEINSECT)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2013, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2016,

Food security is a global challenge. Within the overall increased demand for food, and particularly meat production, there is also an urgent need to increase supply of protein from sustainable sources. The principle objective of the international and multidisciplinary PROteINSECT consortium is to facilitate the exploitation of insects as an alternative protein source for animal and human nutrition ...
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African Rural-City Connections (RURBANAFRICA)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mars 2016,

The overall objective of the African Rural-City Connections (RurbanAfrica) project is to explore the connections between rural transformations, mobility, and urbanization processes and analyze how these contribute to an understanding of the scale, nature and location of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The RurbanAfrica project will advance the research agenda on rural-city connections in sub-Saharan ...
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Training of the One Health Next Scientific Generation in the Sahel and Maghreb (OH-NEXTGEN)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

Humans and animals living in poor communities in the developing world often suffer from health problems arising from neglected zoonoses. Control options for these diseases are perceived as either too expensive or to be beyond the mandate of either the human or animal health systems. There is evidence that zoonoses in humans can be suppressed or even eliminated through interventions in animals. Mor ...
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Type 2 diabetes and obesity among sub-Saharan African native and migrant populations: dissection of environment and endogenous predisposition (RODAM)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

"Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to Europe is increasing. The limited evidence suggests that the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity among SSA migrants is higher than among their SSA peers living in Africa and European host populations. The reasons for these observations are only poorly understood, but may involve migration-related changes in lifestyle, genetic predisposition as well ...
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Supporting decentralised management to improve health workforce performance in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania (PERFORM)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2011, Date de fin: 31 août 2015,

The proposal addresses the workforce deficit in sub-Saharan countries in Africa by improving the overall performance of the workforce. Management strengthening activities will be tested to identify what improvements can be made within available resources in decentralised management structures. The management strengthening activities will develop integrated approaches to improving workforce perfo ...
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Gains from Losses of Root and Tuber Crops (Gratitude)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mars 2015,

Cassava and yam are important food security crops for approximately 700 million people. Post-harvest losses are significant and come in the three forms: (a) physical; (b) economic through discounting or processing into low value products and (c) from bio-wastes. This project aims to reduce these losses to enhance the role that these crops play in food and income security.Post-harvest physical lo ...
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Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2011, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2015,

In sub-Saharan Africa health improvement remains a major development challenge. A growing evidence base demonstrates that health systems must be strengthened to secure progress in addressing mortality and tackling disease burdens. Yet there is a dearth of African research to support such action. African Ministers of Health and international agencies have, therefore, called for accelerated developm ...
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African Programme for Advanced Research Epidemiology Training (APARET)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,

...rm independent scientific activities at their host institutes.- Embedding the fellows in a network of African and European epidemiologistsAPARET can be credited towards a PhD degree of the respective university. EU-funding covers 3 successive cohorts of fellows. APARET will support the fellows in meeting the following objectives:I) Main objective: Prepare, write and submit a proposal for a major ...
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Socially inclusive health care financing in West Africa and India Short title: Financing health care for inclusion (Health Inc.)

Date du début: 1 mai 2011, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2014,

Recent health financing reforms in low and middle income countries aim to introduce affordable prepayment and subsidies for low socio-economic groups. However, while such reforms have led to increased utilization of care, often the poor and informal sector continue to be excluded from coverage.Health Inc. puts forward the hypothesis that social exclusion is an important cause of the limited succes ...
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AFRICA BUILD (Building a Research and Education Infrastructure for Africa) (AFRICA BUILD)

Date du début: 1 août 2011, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2014,

"Topic: AFRICA BUILD aims to improve capacity for health research and education in Africa, through Information Technologies (IT). It will provide innovative learning and research opportunities.Background: The EU has supported many IT and health initiatives, with significant results. In contrast, there has been no significant transfer of expertise, methods and tools to neighbour countries in Africa ...
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The targeted development of a new generation Vaccine for Schistosomiasis (TheSchistoVac)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2010, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2014,

The aim of this project is to develop a new generation vaccine for schistosomiasis. The vaccine will be based on exposed proteins and/or glycans of the vulnerable skin stage schistosomula, making it safe and effective. The life stage-specific vaccine target selection strategy is based on state-of-the-art schistosomal transcriptomics and glycomics technologies and data, and unique serum and sample ...
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Quality of maternal and prenatal care: bridging the know-do gap (QUALMAT)

Date du début: 1 mai 2009, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2014,

Besides a dramatic lack of financial and human resources in developing countries, health care is additionally endangered by quality deficiencies caused by low staff motivation. This lack of motivation leads to an insufficient translation of knowledge into optimal utilization of resources. The “know-do” gap represents a challenge that must be addressed to strengthen health services performance towa ...
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Multilateral Association for Studying health inequalities and enhancing north-south and south-south COoperaTion (MASCOT)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 mars 2014,

Inequalities and vulnerable groups’ health, as well as the slow advances to achieve the health- related Millennium Development Goals, are concerns that need to be addressed, notably for low and middle-income countries. While some countries have made advances, these remain unknown to other ones which could still benefit from their experience. Higher collaboration could help but is quite difficult t ...
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Optimizing drug safety monitoring to enhance patient safety and achieve better health outcomes (Monitoring medicines)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2009, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2013,

"Medicines are one of the most common health interventions. Expenditure on pharmaceuticals range from 10–20 % of all health expenditure in rich countries & from 20–60 % in poor countries. Knowledge of appropriate & safe medicines has grown. But the incidence of medicines adverse effects remains high. In a UK study 6.5% of hospitals admissions were related to an adverse drug reaction (ADR). And as ...
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Europe Africa Marine Network (EAMNet)

Date du début: 1 mars 2010, Date de fin: 30 juin 2013,

EAMNet aims to construct a network linking Earth Observation (EO) information providers, user networks and centres of excellence in Europe and Africa in the area of coastal and marine observations towards sustainable development in Africa. The network will undertake capacity building and maintenance and build upon existing infrastructure and expertise in Africa. The overall aim is to improve the e ...
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Migration between Africa and Europe (MAFE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2008, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

"African migration has become a major concern for European policy makers. New policy measures are under development, but they rely on a poor understanding of the underlying causes and consequences of African migration. The MAFE project aims to overcome this lack of understanding, in order to improve the quality of migration policies. This involves three interrelated objectives. Objective 1. Creat ...
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Free/Libre and Open Source Software: International Cooperation development roadmap (Flossinclude)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2008, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2010,

Description With partners around the globe, the FLOSSInclude project is developing a roadmap for international co-operation to realise the potential of FLOSS as a tool for social and economic development.The Southern FLOSS ChallengeFree/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) holds great potential for developing countries. There are no licence ...
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CARIBU-Cooperation with ACP countries in Regional and International Bridging of Universities

Date du début: 15 juil. 2013,

The CARIBU consortium consist of 8 EU and 12 non EU HEIs partners of which the general management is shared between the coordinator Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the joint coordinator Jimma University (JU) in Ethiopia. The composition of this consortium takes into account the geographical distribution, teaching languages, study fields, experience as well as types of university (public, priv ...
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