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Water clarity improvement after filtration

Safe water solutions

01 Nov 2010

Research across the University is helping to clean up water in regions around the world.

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Faculty of Education Building

Lessons from learning studies

01 Nov 2010

Two research programmes in the Faculty of Education are bringing new insight to the impact and implementation of education in developing countries...

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MRSA

Stopping superbugs in their tracks

01 Nov 2010

Work in resource-restricted healthcare settings in south-east Asia is defining the transmission of hospital ‘superbugs’ using low-tech diagnostics...

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Interviewing a forest villager

Nature dialogues: whose ecosystem?

01 Nov 2010

Finding the right balance between global and local demands on the natural world could help reduce poverty.

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Chars dwellers building plinths as part of the cash-for-work scheme

Out of poverty

01 Nov 2010

Cambridge researchers are contributing to projects in Bangladesh that aim to lift 1 million people out of poverty by 2015.

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Community radio volunteers, Breeze-FM, Chipata, Zambia

Democratising the airwaves

01 Nov 2010

A new research collaboration will investigate the capacity of radio to facilitate citizen-led governance in developing countries.

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Fieldwork in China

When disaster strikes

01 Nov 2010

Using satellite imagery, researchers have developed the first systematic approach for tracking the recovery of regions stricken by natural disaster...

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kiwanja

Humanitarian focus on ICTs for international development

01 Nov 2010

New networking activities will help academic expertise in information and communications technology to benefit developing countries.

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Mobile communications

Mobile communications for medicine

01 Nov 2010

Cambridge researchers in collaboration with China Mobile are examining the potential of mobile phones to deliver healthcare in China and worldwide...

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JustMilk device

Preventing HIV transmission during breastfeeding

20 Oct 2010

In order to reduce the transmission of HIV from mother to baby during breastfeeding, scientists are developing a low-cost, modified nipple shield...

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Kenyan PhD student in Pathology Department

Helping African science to THRiVE

01 Oct 2010

Cambridge academics are helping to strengthen research expertise in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda.

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