KIT wins innovation prize for biodiesel company in Mali
KIT was proclaimed the winner in the international cooperation category of the Egg of Columbus prize. The Institute was awarded the prize for setting up a company in Mali that could produce biodiesel in a sustainable manner.
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Internet community exchanges knowledge about information management
KIT facilitates an online community for information management. As a result of a partnership with Elsevier, members now have free access to important scientific databases.
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Support for healthcare in fragile countries
Countries emerging from conflict situations often lack sound and effective development aid. KIT plans to study and chart the financial gaps within healthcare in six such countries. This should eventually result in the streamlining of aid distribution to fragile countries.
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Brucellosis continues to claim large numbers of victims
Brucellosis is a serious bacterial infection that mostly affects people in developing countries. It is in this regard that KIT has developed a rapid test that allows for a diagnosis to be made relatively simply.
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Drug against leprocy also works as a preventative medicine
The drug Rifampicin has been used for decades as part of the treatment for leprocy. Now it would appear that it is also a preventative agent against the disease. Just one dose can prevent people who regularly mix with leprocy patients from becoming contaminated.
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Stress reaction in the tuberculosis bacteria
Tuberculosis bacteria are becomingly increasingly resistant to antibiotics. KIT is carrying out research into the reasons for this resistance. Stress appears to play a role.
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Portal for sustainable production chains
KIT has launched a new portal: 'Value Chains for Development'. The portal contains information about progress with efforts that are being made to provide the poorest people in society with access to and control over the production chains.
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Harmful traditional practices
Exchange is a quarterly magazine on HIV and AIDS from the perspective of gender, sexuality and sexual health. This issue pays particular attention to the links between harmful traditional practices and HIV. Articles on female genital mutilation, early marriage and widow inheritance are featured in this issue.
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South African family stories
The exhibition 'Family stories from South Africa' was a joint venture between the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam and the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria. It turned out to be a complicated and fascinating project. This publication looks back at the 'making of', providing ideas on a broad range of questions in contemporary museum context.
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The case of the water sector in rural Benin
Delivering drinking water to rural areas is one of the missions of the Direction générale de l'Eau and everyone should have guaranteed access to drinking water. This is something that can only be achieved by establishing appropriate and effective systems and procedures. This publication documents some of our efforts to improve local services.
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The History of Sintang
The Bulletin intends to be an aid for further research in Indonesia on the many perspectives on the history of Sintang. It reports on the most important historical events as told in Western printed sources, like travel accounts, history books, maps and archives. These sources present only one part of the full history.
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