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A new study says that Guatemalan women need free, informed access to contraceptive methods to avoid unsafe abortions.

Despite national prevention programmes, a study has found that shared syringes are the most common mode of HIV transmission in Puerto Rico.

Biofuels from both food and non-food crops will be produced as a result of a research collaboration involving Brazil, Egypt and Sudan.

A study has found that women between the ages of 24 and 45 years old can benefit from a vaccine that protects against the virus responsible for cervical cancer.

A simple HIV test could remove the obstacles to treating HIV-positive babies in their first year, say scientists.

An Argentinean newspaper says that there is a lack of suitable information on influenza A(H1N1), leading to unnecesary panic.

A Nicaraguan study has found that a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine is effective at reducing the risk of severe diarrhoea in children.

Using data on sea temperature and vegetation a new climate model can predict dengue outbreaks many weeks in advance.

The Colombian government has launched a programme for training up scientists from primary school to postdoctoral level.

The Brazilian parliament has taken a step further towards approving a fund for reducing the impacts of global warming on the country.

India is falling behind in science publishing, a leading analyst warns, and it will take more than ambition to solve the problem.

Thirteen Colombian universities have made their thesis and academic documents freely available on one website.

Policymakers facing tough decisions about moving people because of climate change may be helped by a mathematical model.

El Salvador's new Minister of Education, Salvador Sánchez Ceren, has vowed to focus on scientific research.

The Dominican Republic is investing very little in science and technology

The US National Institutes of Health will bear the brunt of risky preclinical research for drug development in neglected diseases.

Colombia must increase its PhD programmes to provide career opportunities for the country's scientists, says Danish academic Lauritz Holm-Nielsen.

Chile has been pushing the use of wind and solar energies in the last four years, announced the country's president Michelle Bachelet.

The Mexican president says that the country's poverty and underdevelopment is partly due to the lack of attention paid to science.

Argentinean authorities have announced that have started the process for buying renewable sources.