Highly active ozonides selected against drug resistant malaria

Authors: Cabral L, Cristiano MLS, de Sousa B, Lobo L, Nogueira F
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957497/

Ever increasing multi-drug resistance by Plasmodium falciparum is creating new challenges in malaria chemotherapy. In the absence of licensed vaccines, treatment and prevention of malaria is heavily dependent on drugs. Potency, range of activity, safety, low cost and ease of administration are crucial issues in the design and formulation of antimalarials. We have tested three synthetic ozonides […]
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Brazil-Africa technical cooperation in health: What’s its relevance to the post-Busan debate on ‘aid effectiveness’?

Authors: Cabral L, Ferrinho P, Russo G
Journal: Globalization and Health
Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/2

Brazil is rapidly becoming an influential player in development cooperation, also thanks to its high-visibility health projects in Africa and Latin America. The 4th High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan in late 2011 marked a change in the way development cooperation is conceptualised. The present paper explores the issue of emerging donors’ contribution to the post-Busan debate on aid effectiveness by looking at Brazil’s health cooperation projects in Portuguese-speaking Africa.
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Brazil and the Shifting Consensus on Development Co-Operation: Salutary Diversions from the ‘Aid-Effectiveness’ Trail?

Authors: Cabral L, Russo G, Weinstock J
Publication Year: 2014
Journal: Development Policy Review
Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dpr.12050/abstract;jsessionid=3317854DB3D2D6B68C04FD47630308B9.f01t03

This article draws on research on Brazil’s technical co-operation and its health dimension to compare the Brazilian model with established aid-effectiveness’ principles and to discuss the appropriateness of the latter as standards against which to appraise emerging donors’ co-operation.
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Highly active ozonides selected against drug resistant malaria

Brazil-Africa technical cooperation in health: What’s its relevance to the post-Busan debate on ‘aid effectiveness’?

Brazil and the Shifting Consensus on Development Co-Operation: Salutary Diversions from the ‘Aid-Effectiveness’ Trail?

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