§ LORD AVEBURYasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will publish a list of the research projects being undertaken by the Tropical Medicine Research Board of the Medical Research Council in the year 1971–72 at the expense, or partly at the expense of the Overseas Development Administration, giving in each case the estimated cost of the research in the current year, the amount included in the Vote of the O.D.A. for 1971–72, and the expected completion date.
§ THE MARQUESS OF LOTHIANThe information is as follows:—
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Scheme Title O.D.A. Estimated Expenditure 1971–72 Total Expenditure Termination Date £ £ Contribution to the cost of the M.R.C. Trachoma Unit, Fajara in the Gambia and the Lister Institute 31,920 53,200 31.3.72 Medical Research Council's Laboratories at Fajara in the Gambia 94,380 157,300 31.3.72 Helminthiasis Research Unit at Kumba, Federal Republic of Cameroon 20,640 25,800 31.3.72 Long term study of the effects of local parasitic diseases of Northern Nigerian communities—pilot study 5,000 5,000 31.3.72 A reassessment of clinical onchoceriasis in Savanna and rain forest areas in West Africa 14,760 14,760 31.3.72 Research into role of hepatitis associated antigen in the partho-genesis of cirrhosis and liver cell carcinoma—University of Ibadan 2,603 2,603 31.1.74 Immunological aspects of certain infection and parasitic diseases—Ahmadu Bello University 6,000 6,000 30.9.73 Recurrent expenditure of Trinidad Virus Research Laboratory 27,328 60,729 31.3.72 Tropical Metabolism Research Unit in Jamaica 46,800 46,800 31.3.75 Studies in the conducting system of micro-circulation of the heart in cardiomyopathy 3,186 3,186 31.12.71 Maintenance of Secretariat of Standing Advisory Committee for Medical Research in the Caribbean 2,374 8,093 31.3.72 Epidemiological Research Unit in Jamaica 39,060 65,100 31.3.72 Appointment of a Mammologist to the staff of the Trinidad Virus Research Laboratory 6,250 11,850 31.3.72 Pilot study on the out patient management of hypertension in Jamaica 1,342 1,342 31.10.71 Schistosomiasis Control Unit, St. Lucia 22,077 29,435 31.3.76 Effects of fulvine on rat and human chromosomes, University of the West Indies 2,310 2,310 31.10.71 Assessment of mental development of children during recovery from malnutrition 3,278 3,278 30.10.73 Grant to Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of West Indies for reconditioning whole body counter 2,310 2,310 31.3.72 The clinical significance of erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency—University of West Indies 888 888 31.10.73 Assistance towards the cost of drug trials against leprosy at the Songei British Research Unit in Malaya 9,000 18,000 31.3.72 Mycetoma in the Sudan 3,161 3,161 31.10.71 Orthopaedic Tuberculosis in the Tropics, Korea 5,920 5,920 31.12.73 Tuberculosis in the Tropics, Hong Kong 1,777 1,777 31.12.73 Lymphographic study of filarial infested patients in the endemic filarial belt in Ceylon 639 639 31.7.73 Cambridge University expedition to Guyana 1971 90 90 31.3.72 Establishment of an Abnormal Haemoglobin Research Unit at Cambridge 8,480 27,000 31.3.72 Investigation into mosquito behaviour—University of Sussex 12,750 21,250 31.3.72 Research on leprosy—University of Oxford 1,370 1,370 31.3.73 Chemotherapy of Schistosomiasis—Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 1,162 1,162 31.3.73 Functional immunity and serology in malaria 5,099 5,099 31.3.73 Arnoebiasis — Development of fluorescent antibody stain— Royal Free Hospital 5,312 5,312 28.2.72 Studies on an intermediary metabolite piperidine-2-carboxylic acid—University of Surrey 1,315 1,315 31.10.71 Research training in physical working capacity and cardio-pulmonary function 2,100 2,100 31.3.72 Studies of the chemotherapy of human liver cancer and of hepatocarcinogenesis 5,773 5,773 31.12.74 TOTAL 644,762 940,697