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TropIKA.net is a web portal that aims to foster innovation and knowledge application relating to research on infectious diseases of poverty. Recent selections are presented here.
As we mark TropIKA.net's second year, considerable progress has been made towards our goal of becoming the leading web portal for research on infectious diseases of poverty.
This progress is due in large part to contributions from a growing circle of contributors, web browsers and forum/meeting participants.
We will continue to dedicate ourselves to the task of bringing different research constituencies together to share knowledge and dialogue. We hope that the wide range of new content in all website sections will stimulate further participation in this exciting venture while our expansion continues.
A key element of the TroplKA.net initiative is interactivity. Every item appearing on TroplKA.net includes a "comment" facility for feedback. We welcome comments on the portal as a whole as well as on the issues presented in blogs, commentaries, and meeting forums. Suggestions will be incorporated into our development plans.
Knowledge hubs
TroplKA. net's "knowledge hub" initiative provides opportunities for participants to contribute more effectively to large health forums. People who are not at the meeting can use the knowledge hub to be virtually present.
Visit the TroplKA.net knowledge hub's coverage of three major meetings in 2009. The most recent was Forum 2009, the annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research, 16-20 November in Havana, Cuba. The 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference was held 2-6 November in Nairobi, Kenya, and the 2nd Meeting of the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation, in Cape Town, South Africa, 4-7 October 2009.
The Forum 2009 meeting, 16-20 November, was attended by some 800 scientists, policy-makers, health care workers, funders and other stakeholders. Its theme was "Innovation for the health of all". Highlights of the comprehensive TroplKA.net coverage included an interview with the Global Forum's next executive director, Anthony Mbewu.
Carlos Morel, director of the Center for Technological Development in Health at FIOCRUZ in Brazil, also was interviewed. He said Cuba's innovations in...