They hope studying these genes more closely could help in development of new treatments for the disease, and possibly a cure.

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The groups are the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and the New Partnership for Africa's Development.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Next year's research and development budget calls for spending nearly two billion dollars on new space technologies.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

will celebrate the country's new Charter for Environment and Sustainable Development.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

NEPAD chief Ibrahim Mayaki was in New York for discussions Wednesday about African development in the U.N.General Assembly.

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Some were buried in family compounds, but many families bring bodies to be buried here because in Kigali's rapid development many homes are being removed to make room for new construction.

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"I think we are recognizing that the Washington consensus on economic policy is over - that the old world has gone, that we have got to build a new consensus on economic development for the future,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

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