The Lancet
Jun 20, 2015 Volume 385 Number 9986 p2433-2546
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Editorial
The G7 and global health: inaction or incisive leadership?
The Lancet
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61121-7
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“They came, they met, and nothing happened.” So was the conclusion of James Rubin, former US Assistant Secretary of State. A harsh, but many might say fair, statement about the recent G7 meeting held in Germany. A few days before the start of the Summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set the scene for leaders: “When they meet at the Schloss Elmau Summit in Germany on June 7–8, G7 leaders can show they are serious about seizing the moment and protecting people and the planet.” He was right to suggest that as the international community prepares to adopt a new sustainable development agenda in New York in September, together with a new climate treaty in Paris in December, G7 countries have “a special responsibility to lead”.

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Comment
Capacity for science in sub-Saharan Africa
Alison Elliott, Barbara Nerima, Bernard Bagaya, Andrew Kambugu, Moses Joloba, Stephen Cose, Guiseppe Pantaleo, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, David Mabey, David Dunne, Ashley Moffett, Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya, Pontiano Kaleebu, Edward Katongole Mbidde
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61111-4
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During the past decade there has been an increase in funding for research capacity building in Africa. Two major European programmes are at a turning point: the Wellcome Trust’s African Institutions Initiative is about to end, while their new initiative, DELTAS Africa,1 will be launched later this year. The European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is ending, superseded by Horizon 2020,2 with the transition of some research areas that are important to Africa into the expanded second phase of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership.