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    Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) quarterly bulletin - April 2014

    Amazon Malaria Initiative, 2014
    Thi issue inlcudes: international partner highlights; country spotlight on Ecuador, Guyana, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru and Suriname; global malaria news, events and meetings.
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    Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) quarterly bulletin - January 2014

    Amazon Malaria Initiative, 2014
    This issue includes country spotlights on Brazil and Colombia, international partner highlights, events and meetings and global malaria news.
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    Amazon Malaria Initiative: progress in prevention and control

    Amazon Malaria Initiative, 2014
    The United States Agency for international Development (USAID) launched the Amazon malaria initiative (AMI) in 2001 to improve the prevention and control of malaria in the Amazon basin.
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    Tips for lowering the temperature in pharmacies and and maintaining medication quality

    Amazon Malaria Initiative, 2014
    Pharmacies that serve health clinics located in tropical areas need infrastructure that will help lower their inside air temperature. It is very important that drugs being stored not reach temperatures above 30°C, remembering that certain drugs must be stored at temperatures below 25°C. Higher temperatures tend to change medication quality, which can harm patients who need the drugs.
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    Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI)

    The Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) is an eleven country regional program in the Amazon basin and Central America with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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    Implementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.
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    A fine balance: mapping cyber (in)security in Latin America

    Igarape Institute, 2012
    Cyber-security is emerging as a dominant area of concern amongst many governments and civil societies across Latin America. Although the existence of cyberspace is already generating a massive evolution in all aspects of life, it is extending the reach of organised crime across time and space.
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    To save succeeding generations: UN Security Council reform and the protection of civilians

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    The UN needs to be reformed, and this has been an almost constant item on the agenda of the General Assembly and Security Council since the creation of the organisation. The current paper is a contribution to the debate about UN reform, with specific reference to the protection of civilians by peacekeeping missions under international law.
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    Brazil’s experience in unstable settings: assessing the participation of Brazilian experts in multilateral missions

    Igarape Institute, 2012
    Since at least the early 1990s Brazil has provided military police and civilian experts to UN missions around the world. The current paper highlights that Brazil is increasingly involved in international missions that promote the transition to democracy, support macro-economic stability and seek conflict prevention and poverty reduction.
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    Cyberspace & open empowerment in Latin America

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    With some 40% of the population now online, connectivity is expanding in Latin America faster than in any other part of the world. Correspondingly, across Latin America, governments have been struggling to keep up with the pace and range of cyber-enhanced change.

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