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EAGLES Health Report on Tuberculosis, July 2009

In this report EAGLES interviews the leading experts on TB and TB research into new drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines, to discover where the world stands - and what Europe should be doing - to improve our defences against this disease, both in Europe and worldwide; and we report from the TB frontiers in Assam, India and Malawi, Africa.

Link to EAGLES Health Report on Tuberculosis, July 2009

EAGLES Health Systems Report, July 2009

China is undergoing a radical shift in its health policy, especially towards the rural poor, in which research is playing a major role. Werner Christie, past Minister of Health of Norway and health advisor to WHO China, and member of EAGLES health committee, gives his latest perspective in spring 2009..

Link to EAGLES Health Systems Report, July 2009

Proceedings of the EAGLES Food Symposium 2008

12-16 April 2008, EAGLES organised the EAGLES Food Symposium 2008 at BioVisionAlexandria 2008 in Egypt.

Its objective was to present the state of research and current European programmes on major food, agriculture and biotechnology themes that could address the challenges of food security, quality and safety in developing and emerging countries.

Download the proceedings here: Eagles Food Symposium

EAGLES Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, Manila 2008

Intellectual Property Rights IPR is not about forfeiting the rights for the rich and exempting the poor from access to the use of knowledge. IPR should be seen as a tool management of new knowledge making sure that it is being used to the limit of its potential. Maybe a better expression than IPR would be Intellectual Resource Management. The developing world needs IPR management in order to develop.

Link to EAGLES Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, Manila 2008

EAGLES Health Report on Tuberculosis Diagnostics

5-7 November 2008, EAGLES organised a Workshop on Tuberculosis in Shenzhen, China.  This report on tuberculosis diagnostics is the first of two statements from the workshop.

It concludes that better diagnostics technologies could have a dramatic impact on existing tuberculosis control programmes. The paper was presented at the Global Health Ministerial Meeting 17-19 November in Bamako, Mali ( http://bamako2008.org/ ). 

Download “Tuberculosis Diagnostics”

EAGLES & South African NRF Report on ICT and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

India is already using information technology to improve productivity and food security in poor rural areas. EAGLES organised a workshop in collaboration with the South African National Research Foundation in order to discuss how IT could be implemented in African agriculture. The EAGLES report on Information and Communication Technologies and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa was published October 2008. To see the full, updated South African NRF & EAGLES Report

EAGLES Health Report on Diabetes in the developing world

The EAGLES Health Report on Diabetes has been published in April 2008. To see the full, updated EAGLES Health Report on Diabetes please click Eagles Health Report - Diabetes.

EAGLES Food Forum in Barcelona

A report on the EAGLES Food Forum in Barcelona has been published in April 2008. It gives a priority of action list with “Ten Commandments” for global agriculture.
To see the full, updated EAGLES Food Forum in Barcelona Report please click here

EAGLES Health Report on HIV/AIDS

HIV has spread worldwide in a short time, but is concentrated in low-income countries. Europe has the duty to create such a comprehensive research programme. To see the full, updated EAGLES Health Report on HIV/AIDS please click here

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