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New highly active agents against sandfly fever

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December 2004

Leishmaniases and trypanosomiases are parasitic diseases which kill several thousands of people per year, mainly in developing countries.

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Migration and Aids : social control, a brake on the spread of HIV in Senegal?

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December 2004

The mechanisms that govern the relation between personal mobility and transmission of the Aids virus (HIV) are still poorly known.

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Densovirus offers hope for biological control of Egypt’s major cotton pest

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November 2004

The noctuid lepidopteran Spodoptera littoralis, or Egyptian Cotton Leafworm, is the main insect pest that threatens cotton plantations in Egypt.

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Multitherapies against Aids in Africa: children can also benefit

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November 2004

HIV infection in the Ivory Coast is hitting 690 000 adults and 80 000 children under 15, figures that make the country the most severely affected in West Africa.

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Adapting agricultural practices to reduce the greenhouse effect

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October 2004

Agriculture generates nearly 35% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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