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The media can help in the global fight against disease, both as a watchdog for poor practices, and a champion for successful research.

Governments and donors must find ways to tackle the rise in non-communicable disease, which can mean reassessing health priorities in developing nations.

African ministers have committed themselves to a set of actions to boost health research in their countries. Now they must implement them.

International surveillance systems are needed to curb the rise of antibiotic resistance.

Developing countries need economic stability and social inclusion to develop — both of which are in jeopardy in Kenya and Pakistan as 2008 dawns.

The research community's failure in the past 25 years to develop either a vaccine or a cure for HIV/AIDS underlines the need to be more, not less, scientific.

Developing countries need to recognise the long-term benefits of creating the capacity to research and develop flu vaccines.

Increasing access to affordable drugs in developing countries requires better government intervention, not less of it.