The IRD is a unique institution in the landscape of European research for development. Its task is to conduct research in the South, for the South, with the South.
Its researchers are working on issues of major global importance today: global warming, emerging diseases, biodiversity, access to water, migration, poverty, world hunger. The teaching and training they provide empowers and enables Southern scientific communities.
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Adapt mosquito nets for better malaria control
30 October 2009
Malaria is the world’s most widespread parasitic disease and is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. It kills between one and three million people every year and the African continent suffers 90% of the deaths caused. The pathogens are parasites of the genus Plasmodium transmitted to humans ...
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Photography of the month
Drying of filter paper during a sanatory survey in Vientiane (Viang Chan) - Laos
The blood collected on a filter paper by sting at the end of the finger is used to look for the presence of markers of tropical diseases as the malaria or the dengue.
Discover the new exhibition on malaria : Fighting malaria
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72,000 bibliographic references spanning 60 years
Full-text search facility available on 42,000 articles.
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18 000 cartographic references
2700 maps and atlases in digitised format
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Calling card - Full South!
May 2009
The film of presentation of "Institut de Recherche pour le Développement" and of its activities.
