The reason is that Congress, under pressure from the gun lobby in the 1990s, redirected money that had been allocated for gun research by the C.D.C. and wrote legislation that was interpreted as a ban on government-financed studies of gun violence.
This year, NIH has been archiving data from the NCS's 40 Vanguard pilot centers, which had recruited 5700 women and their infants, and spending much of the $165 million that had been allocated for 2015 on related pediatric research, such as new tools for measuring exposures and studies of the placenta.
The Obama Administration has worked around congressional inaction by repurposing nearly six hundred million dollars for Zika research, five hundred million of which had been allocated for Ebola.
GFATM, for example, allows up to 10% of each grant to be allocated for operations research, but this provision is rarely used by countries and the research community is rarely represented on Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) [ 40].
Overall, the study results suggest that these kinds of complex innovations, which involve changes in behaviour by challenging socio-political conditions and traditions, need more time than can typically be allocated for a research project.
This is not to say that all their practices be accepted unquestioningly, rather that resources need to be allocated for documentation, research, engagement with healers and for appropriate assessment be performed so that the beneficial aspects of tribal medicine can be recognised.
In his appreciative reply, Hermans acknowledged the need for practical changes: "Mentoring must become better!" The minister announced that funds will be allocated for follow-up research on the PhD students' situation in 1 year's time.
