Associated Web Sites
The Department hosts and contributes to a number of web sites that are collaborative projects between IDE, other academic institutions and non-government organisations.
Focusing Resources on Effective School Health. A FRESH Start to Improving the Quality and Equity of Education.
WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank, Partnership for Child Development, Education International, Save the Children US, SmithKline Beecham, Governments of Denmark, Norway, Spain, United States.
The Manicaland HIV/STD Prevention Project
The Manicaland HIV/STD Prevention Project began in the early 1990’s in response to the growing concern about high rates of HIV infection and mortality in Zimbabwe. The project was set up to investigate the prevalence of HIV in Manicaland province and the demographic and social effects of the epidemic in the region.
Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST)
MLST is a nucleotide sequence based approach for the unambiguous characterisation of isolates of bacteria and other haploid organisms via the internet.
The Partnership for Child Development
The Partnership was established in 1992 to conduct and promote operations research on school health and nutrition programmes, and to undertake research on the health and health education of school-age children. It is an international collaboration to improve the health, nutrition and educational development of school-age children in low income countries.
Schistosomiasis Control initiative (SCI)
Funded by a major grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) has established treatment programmes in six African countries and in conducting research into their efficacy.
Improved Learning through better Health, Nutrition and Education for the School-Aged Child.
Partners: World Bank; World Bank International School Health Initiative; Partnership for Child Development; US Agency for International Development; World Health Organisation; Pan American Health Organization; and UNICEF.
UNAIDS Epidemiology Reference Group
Advise UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation on the most appropriate assumptions for their global estimates.
WebACT provides a JAVA webstart version of the Artemis Comparison Tool and a database of all published genomes, allowing on-line BLAST comparisons of up to five bacterial genomes.
