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Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola

There is currently a growing academic and institutional interest in issues of capacity building and research partnerships. It is widely recognized that North/South partnerships are fundamental to attaining innovation, leading to improvements in virtually every social field, including science, technology and health. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 17 is specifically focused on research partnerships, […]
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Assembling Upstream Engagement: the Case of the Portuguese Deliberative Forum on Nanotechnologies

This article analyzes a deliberative forum on nanotechnologies, organized in Portugal within the scope of the research project DEEPEN—Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies. This event included scientists, science communicators and members of the “lay public”, and resulted in a position document which summarizes collective aspirations and concerns related to nano. Drawing upon […]
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Characterization of NS5A and NS5B resistance-associated substitutions from genotype 1 hepatitis C virus infected patients in a Portuguese cohort

This study is focused on the prevalent NS5 coding region resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) in DAA-naive genotype (GT)1 HCV-infected patients and their potential impact on success rates. Plasma RNA from 81 GT1 HCV-infected patients was extracted prior to an in-house nested RT-PCR of the NS5 coding region, which is followed by Sanger population sequencing. NS5A RASs were present […]
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Health for development, research partnerships and fairness: a literature review

Despite the recent efforts of the United Nations in the enactment of global partnerships for development, at the moment there are no concrete tools to assess the dynamics of international research partnerships in the health domain. The Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) aims at filling this gap, and in order to do so it collected a […]
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