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Cambridge researchers have long worked with African colleagues on issues that matter not just to the continent but to the world.

Ghana

Harnessing the power of research to benefit developing countries

25 Apr 2013

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture

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Dr Sabina Wachira, a THRiVE postdoctoral fellow from icipe in Kenya, who visited her Cambridge mentor (Dr David Spring of the Department of Chemistry)'s lab in 2012

Cambridge named one of Wellcome Trust’s Centres for Global Health Research

11 Feb 2013

Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.

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Waiting area in a hospital in Palapye, Botswana

Lessons from Botswana

17 Oct 2012

Towards the end of their training, student doctors have the chance to spend an elective spell working overseas, often in developing countries...

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Diagram showing spread of humans from Africa.

Scientists use genetics and climate reconstructions to track the global spread of modern humans out of Africa

17 Sep 2012

Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.

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The Mount Mabu Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mabuensis) as discovered by Dr Julian Bayliss, one of the four new species of African Horseshoe bat.

Multidisciplinary approach unlocks ‘cryptic’ African bat revealing four new species

13 Sep 2012

Latest research has discovered four new species of Horseshoe bat in Africa by piecing together clues such as DNA data and sonar frequency. This...

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Blood transfusion

Western methods increase cost of 'safe blood' in sub-Saharan Africa

11 Sep 2012

Scientists find that Western approach to blood transfusion employed in Africa - often a condition of financial aid - may add significant cost to...

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Carnegie Alborada Grants

Grants take Cambridge in Africa Programme to next level

03 Aug 2012

The University of Cambridge's wide-ranging and long-term strategy of engagement with African higher education institutions moved into its next phase...

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Mainlehwon Vonhm in a classroom in Liberia

I was still alive and I never gave up hope

23 Jul 2012

As a teenager, Mainlehwon Vonhm walked alone, barefoot and hungry out of war-torn Liberia to the safety of a refugee camp. Two decades later he flew...

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Lake Togo

Judge team to advise on Togo's development

26 Jun 2012

A team of Cambridge alumni led by Sir Paul Judge will help to prepare a framework for the development of Togo over the next 10-20 years.

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Artwork by Nondumiso Hlwele

Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers

22 Jun 2012

A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa...

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Drum song performance in Accra, Ghana. Ruth Finnegan’s seminal “Oral Literature In Africa” covered stories, songs and numerous other forms of African oral culture, but the study has been out of print for many years.

“Unglue” a landmark of African cultural studies

19 Jun 2012

A campaign to republish an out-of-print classic on the subject of African culture, using funds donated by academics, enthusiasts and general readers...

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Photo-voice image from the AskAIDS project

Breaking sex education taboos in Africa to tackle AIDS

19 Jun 2012

New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play...

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