The collaborative efforts make this resource capable of providing diverse biospecimens including fresh frozen tissues, paraffin blocks, tissue microarrays (TMAs), blood and DNA samples with clinicopathologic and follow-up data from a wide variety of medical care settings spread across rural and urban regions.
The maps were a collaborative effort made by up to 500 artisans from Afghanistan and Pakistan, with each "mappa" taking up to two years to complete and as large as 7ft wide and 4ft tall.
An example of the collaborative effort made possible by SACIDS's participation in CORDS is the joint SACIDS-EAIDSNet exploration of mobile technologies for disease alerts and surveillance in remote and cross-border areas (Text Box 2).
Make sports a collaborative effort: work together to make baskets, pass a ball around, or practice hitting a baseball.
The company said the action was part of its commitment to the collaborative effort of five companies, the United Nations, the World Bank and cooperating governments to explore practical collaborative efforts to make AIDS drugs more affordable and more widely available.
In thanking the hospital staff, the Honiara City Council Health Services and UNICEF, Dr. Alependava said that these collaborative "efforts to make the initiative a success shows that commitment, partnership and teamwork can achieve a lot for our health programmes".
However, the lack of a collaborative effort has made it a challenge for developers, wireless operators and handset manufacturers to respond as quickly as possible to the ever-changing needs of savvy mobile consumers.
"There's a lot of confusion, a lot of questions and it'll take a tremendous, collaborative effort to make sure people have the information they need to make informed choices," said Brad Fluegel, Walgreens' chief strategy officer, in a press release.
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First and foremost, collaborative efforts must be made to develop tools that best capture the disease process.
