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Social networking site aims to help fight malaria

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New website gives smaller African projects a bigger profile.

The Internet is great for sharing links with your friends, getting information from distant lands, and, of course, spending money. Now a website is aiming to take advantage of all of these in a bid to raise the profile of African scientists working at the grassroots of the fight against malaria.

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Hopkin, M. Social networking site aims to help fight malaria. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.768

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