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New highly active agents against sandfly fever

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December

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

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

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

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

Agriculture generates nearly 35% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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