An analysis of TRIPS and its patent provisions relative to access to medicines

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Standards of patentability Setting the proper standards of patentability is an additional TRIPS flexibility. Article 27 of TRIPS lays down the baseline standards of patentability. It provides that inventions are patentable if they...

Non-linear frequency compression in hearing aids

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Music perception in adult cochlear implant recipients (Leal et al., 2003) The following sub-tests were included in this study: Timbre: In order to obtain evaluative responses of perceptions of various timbres, the participants...

Activity of crude extracts against glycohydrolase and reverse transcriptase enzymes

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » HIV treatment and research on natural products The antiretroviral agents which are currently available for the treatment of HIV infection targets enzymes essential to the life cycle of the virus. HIV reverse transcriptase...

Good practices of culture which hinders the spread of HIV/AIDS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Alternatives  Practical theology is trying to reach out to the people to make them understand God's love for them through the creation story. What is the role of Christian morals in believers...

Cry in the ghetto: the narratives of children affected by HIV and AIDS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » IMMERSED IN THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT All expressions and discussions of reality are inescapable ingredients of township theology3F 4. Socio-economic factors cannot be eliminated from such theology. Deep down in the cries of children affected...

Ectoparasite burdens in the eastern rock sengi (elephantulus myurus): the effect of seasonality and host sex

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » DISCUSSION The current study aimed to assess the ectoparasite community harboured by Micaelamys namaquensis and identify the most important species. In addition, we investigated the impact of abiotic and biotic factors on ectoparasite...

Collaboration Between Allopathic and Tradition Health Practitioners

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Integrated systems There has been a global consciousness regarding the necessity to move away from exclusive, tolerant and inclusive systems and move towards integrated systems characterised by the amalgamation of all health care...

miRNAs as the cause and consequence of cancer-related epigenetic alteration

DNA methylation DNA methylation is a widespread modification in bacteria, plants and mammals, and this covalent molecular transformation is a natural modification of DNA, which takes place at position 5 of cytosine, and especially of cytosines preceding guanine (CpG) in...

Development of a PCR-based method for the detection and characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Primer-pair recognition of FMDV serotypes In order to assess the applicability of published primers for FMDV diagnosis in southern Africa, three different primer pairs were initially evaluated. These include the primer pair described...

The role of Toll-like receptor polymorphisms in susceptibility to canine distemper virus 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Host range & prevalence Although CDV was initially described as an infectious disease of domestic dogs, it has increasingly become known as a worldwide multi-host pathogen, infecting a wide range of carnivores (Beineke...