VIEWPOINT Afiican countries.the conditionson the ground have not changed.We suggestthe fbllowingas somepotentialsolutions' in Africa Despiteeconomic hardship,piovernments in research medical role of needto recognisethe irnportant t h e ir o f d e v e l o p m e n t s o c i a l a n d e s o n o m i c the overall C K o k w a r oa n d S K a r i u k i countries,and thereby give special attention to respective I increasedallocation of funding, particularly fbr key basic This articte appearedin the Bulletin of the Royal Societyof researchprogrammes. Governmentscan do so by part Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK, and is reproducedwith sponsorshipand by sourcing funds from bilateral donors kind permissionof the authors that are targetedspecifically towards medical researchand made open to competitive funding according to priority I t i s c l o s e t o 3 0 y e a r ss i n c e m o s t c t l t ' n t r i e si n s u b - S a h a r a n areasof research. A f r i c a g a i n e d i n d e p e n d e n c eD. u r i n g t h i s p e r i o d ,s o m e o f Although structuresfor tunding exist on a limited t h e s ec o u n t r i e sh a v e p u t c o n s i d e r a b l fei n a n c i a li n v e s t t n e n t basis,it would be helpful to strengthenfurther and expand i n t o e d u c a t i o na n d h e a l t h ,p a r t i c u l a r l yt h e t r a i n i n go f h e a l t h funding in variouscategoriesto targetscientistsat diff'erent workers and researchscientists.Sadly, the impact of this levels of careerdevelopment.For example,there would be investment 0n research pr

Medical research in Africa: problems and some solutions.

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