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Population health vulnerabilities to vector-borne diseases: Increasing resilience under climate change conditions in AfricaResearch groups or consortia from African national institutions are invited to express interest in undertaking multidisciplinary research to elucidate population health vulnerabilities due to vector-borne diseases (VBDs) in dryland socio-ecological systems. The research will also need to explore how state-of-the-art, VBD control tools and strategies can be used more effectively to reach remote or otherwise marginalized populations (especially women and children), and conceive, strengthen and improve their adaptation strategies to climate, environmental and socio-economic and demographic change. TDR will implement the research programme with funding support from IDRC and in technical collaboration with WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment, WHO’s Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) -- notably its Programme for the Protection of the Human Environment -- and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University, New York, USA.
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ABOUT TDR TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps coordinate, support and influence global efforts to combat a portfolio of major diseases of the poor and disadvantaged. Established in 1975, TDR is sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), and is executed by WHO.