Reformed US malaria program garners critics' approval

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has started spending more money on spraying insecticides for mosquito control and less money on consultants and meetings, following the charges of poor accounting and outsize payments to consultants. The agency is working with partners such as Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis and is trying to strike a balance between transparency and proprietary information.

Government expenditures, Alliances, partnerships, Prevention, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Alliances and partnerships, Mosquito control, United States. Agency for International Development, Government finance, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Geneva, Switzerland)

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Earlier drug tests on people could be unsafe, critics warn

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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced new rules on drug development in January 2006. As per the new rules, scientists will be able to test small doses of experimental drugs in people before the beginning of full-scale clinical trials and before the completion of standard in vitro and animal tests.

Health aspects, Clinical trials, Mandatory drug testing, Drug testing, United States. Food and Drug Administration

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Sports law could even the score for women in science

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A powerful US law that had an impact on women's sports may reduce the innate differences that account for the low numbers of women in science. The 1972 law, called Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in education, can be used to address gender bias in hiring and allocation of resources such as lab space.

Sex discrimination against women, Discrimination in education, Educational discrimination

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