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		<title>Is Asia&#8217;s space race hurting the poor?</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/is-asias-space-race-hurting-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all like to read those stories about how even poor countries, like Ghana, have the noble ambition to explore the final frontier. In this article for SciDev, some are suggesting maybe the space race in low- and middle-income should wait until they&#8217;ve dealt with poverty. Source: Scidev Vietnam&#8217;s first remote sensing satellite blasted into &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/is-asias-space-race-hurting-the-poor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad milestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanity&#8217;s tendency to soil its nest reaches a new threshold. Source: Guardian For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million (ppm). The last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/bad-milestone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Online mapping of drug-resistant malaria</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/2013/05/online-mapping-of-drug-resistant-malaria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to SciDev for pointing out this fascinating tool, the IR mapper for tracking drug resistance in malaria parasites worldwide: An online mapping system to track insecticide resistance in malaria-causing mosquitoes around the world has been launched.  The free interactive website identifies places in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have become resistant to &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/2013/05/online-mapping-of-drug-resistant-malaria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does the global scientific agenda ignore African interests?</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/does-the-global-scientific-agenda-ignore-african-interests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/does-the-global-scientific-agenda-ignore-african-interests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know there was a global scientific agenda, but apparently there is and some think it&#8217;s dominated (like most things) by Western interests: &#8220;In Africa, we sometimes believe that global curiosity-driven research — studies driven by researchers&#8217; inquisitiveness rather than political or strategic directives — is at &#8220;odds with the continent&#8217;s development priorities.&#8221; Source: &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/does-the-global-scientific-agenda-ignore-african-interests/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The deadly threat of bird flu contagion exhaustion</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/the-deadly-threat-of-contagion-exhaustion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/the-deadly-threat-of-contagion-exhaustion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm, writing in the NY Times, says that the steady drumbeat of news stories about bird flu or other new viral strains emerging here and there threatens to create a new kind of global malaise &#8211; &#8216;contagion exhaustion,&#8217; lack of interest in the threat of pandemic flu. I wrote about this &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/the-deadly-threat-of-contagion-exhaustion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NPR: Using bacteria to swat malaria</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/npr-using-bacteria-to-swat-malaria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An update on scientists testing the idea of using bacteria to infect mosquitoes infected with malaria to undermine spread of the parasite. Source: Npr Infecting mosquitoes with a specific type of bacteria makes the insects resistant to malaria. Now scientists have figured out how to get the mosquitoes to pass the infections on to their &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/npr-using-bacteria-to-swat-malaria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Maurice Hilleman: A forgotten pioneer of vaccines</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/maurice-hilleman-a-forgotten-pioneer-of-vaccines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice piece from the NYTimes: &#8220;The name Maurice Hilleman may not ring a bell. But today 95 percent of American children receive the M.M.R. — the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella that Dr. Hilleman invented, starting with the mumps strain he collected that night from his daughter. It was by no means his only &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/maurice-hilleman-a-forgotten-pioneer-of-vaccines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>DVDs double as a cheap HIV diagnostic kit</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/dvds-double-as-a-cheap-hiv-diagnostic-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/dvds-double-as-a-cheap-hiv-diagnostic-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kinda cool: Blood samples are loaded into micro-channels on a modified, semi-transparent DVD disc and scanned by a DVD reader, which has been adapted to detect light transmitted through the disc. The image can then be visualised on a computer screen. Source: Scidev DVD players can become portable, cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries for &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/dvds-double-as-a-cheap-hiv-diagnostic-kit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rats sniff out TB in Tanzania</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/rats-sniff-out-tb-in-tanzania/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/rats-sniff-out-tb-in-tanzania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fun &#8216;innovation&#8217; story about these giant rats trained to sniff out tuberculosis. This story&#8217;s been done a hundred times, but I never get tired of reading about it. My neighbor Jay has diabetes, by the way, and his dog is trained to smell when his insulin levels are off. The nose knows! &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/rats-sniff-out-tb-in-tanzania/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of talk about an AIDS cure, despite lack of a cure</title>
		<link>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/lots-of-talk-about-an-aids-cure-despite-lack-of-a-cure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/lots-of-talk-about-an-aids-cure-despite-lack-of-a-cure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don McNeil of the New York Times looks at the many reports about how a &#8216;cure&#8217; for AIDS is on the horizon and explains why it&#8217;s not. Source: Nytimes What to make of all the recent &#8220;cured of AIDS&#8221; headlines? An American in Berlin, a baby in Mississippi and 14 patients in France are all &#8230; <a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/jp/lots-of-talk-about-an-aids-cure-despite-lack-of-a-cure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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