TDR summary report 2004-05: with an overview of some key activities for 2006-07

Overview

This report identifies some selected achievements from TDR’s 2004-05 research activities, and ongoing activities that may lead to notable achievements for the coming two years, 2006-07.

Within these topics a wide range of diseases. The main aspect linking these diseases is their association with poverty. Appropriately directed research can help break the cycle of poverty and disease that cripples many communities. It is important to maintain focus on the immediate deliverables and outputs of our research activities, but ultimately, TDR's goal is to have an impact – on human health and well-being, and on the capacity of developing countries to drive and implement the innovations. In the first section of this report, TDR outlines four major examples of the impact that resulted this year from many years of attention and commitment by the people and organizations whom we support and with whom we work.