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...requires sophisticated lab facilities for amplifying genes that are beyond the limited resources of most developing nations. "It will be very difficult to bring expensive technologies, machines and trained technicians on a wider scale," predicts Dr. Arvinder Pal Gill, district TB officer in Moga, in India's Punjab region. In addition, the test can detect only MDR TB, not the emerging XDR strains. But both WHO and the Global Fund for H.I.V., TB and Malaria are betting that investing in such facilities will boost these nations' ability to combat not just TB but other infectious diseases too. UNITAID, the international...
...what might happen to him and to his country when he returned to work. After Wall Street's U.S. stock swoon on Sept. 29 and Washington's inability to pass the $700 billion package to rescue the U.S. financial system, Mustapha is waking up to the potential dangers the region faces from a collapsing American economy. "The U.S. is such a giant and we are so intimately connected with it," he says. "If it falls, we will fall...
...most vulnerable are those with high dependence on exports, such as Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam. In China, weak export orders combined with rising costs are forcing tens of thousands of small factories to close in the country's industrial zones. The woes of exporters are felt throughout the region, which is tightly linked by trade in manufacturing parts and machinery. Slower sales to the U.S. mean reduced orders up and down the supply chain. "There are people who say you can still export to the emerging economies, especially in Asia," says Jun Saito, director general at the economic research...
...usual propaganda,” she said. “A lot of people are not really specialists in the region, so it flies if he spins questions around...
...Harvard Gazette article published at the time of his death, Wagner said that his interest in the region was piqued by his interaction with Koreans during his time in that country...