| ACTS | Artemisinin combination therapy
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| BBSRC | Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
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| CDC | US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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| DfID | UK Department for International Development
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| DNDI | Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
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| DOTS | Directly observed treatment (as in TB)
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| ECDC | European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control
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| EDCTP | European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
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| EBI | European Bioinformatics Institute (an out-station of the EMBL)
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| EMBL | European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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| ESPA | Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation
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| ESRC | Economic & Social Research Council
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| FDA | US Food and Drug Administration
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| Global Fund | Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria
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| HPA | Health Protection Agency (England)
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| IARC | WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer
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| IAVI | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
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| ITN | Insecticide treated bed net
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| LIC | Low income countries |
| LMIC | Low and middle income countries
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| LSHTM | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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| LWEC | Living with Environmental Change
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| MDR | Multidrug resistant, as in TB
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| MIC | Medium income countries
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| MDG | UN Millennium Development Goals
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| MRSA | Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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| MMV | Medicines for Malaria Initiative
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| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council
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| NERC-CEH | NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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| NIMR | MRC National Institute for Medical Research
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| NGO | Non governmental organisation
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| OIE | Office International des Epizooties
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| PEPFAR | US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
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| PMI | US President's Initiative in Malaria
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| RC | Research Council |
| RCUK | Research Councils UK |
| SARS | Severe acute respiratory syndrome
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| STD | Sexually transmitted disease
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| STFC | Science & Technology Facilities Council
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| TDR | UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research &
Development in Tropical Diseases
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| UKCDS | UK Collaborative on Development Sciences
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| UKCRC | UK Clinical Research Collaboration
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| UNAIDS | United Nations AIDS programme
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| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme
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| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund
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| UNPFA | United Nations Population Fund
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| WHO | World Health Organisation
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| XDR | Extensively drug resistant
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