While earlier HIV diagnosis and prompt ART initiation remain key goals, similarities between adults and children call for interventions to target reductions in early mortality in both; simplification and harmonization of management approaches across both groups would be an advantage in most resource-limited settings.
Local communities or small-scale forest operators face difficulties in adjusting traditional practices to implement official forestry regulations, that are usually drafted with little harmonization of different management objectives and also little consideration of local socio-ecological contexts.
As part of the process of test profile harmonization and demand management 23 it has been suggested that 'its inclusion is more as an opportunistic screening test for monoclonal gammopathy, but no specific intervention exists other than watchful waiting' 24.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, endorsed in 2005, is an international agreement with 130 signatories (including more than 100 countries and organizations), which calls for increased harmonization, alignment and management of aid and sets out indicators by which results can be monitored [ 5].
This data centre has a long-standing and unparalleled experience of epidemiological data harmonization and central data management and analyses of the MORGAM Project [ 9] and its predecessor, the WHO MONICA Project (Tunstall-Pedoe and Project [ 32].
By following the general trend in the bioscience community for the standardization of reporting, MIABi will be registered with the MIBBI Project [ 8], so as to promote and coordinate the development, management and harmonization of Minimum Information (MI) specifications from across the biological and biomedical sciences.
NORMAN expertise in, e.g., data management, method development, and harmonization is expected to contribute to improve the assessment of plastic particles in the environment.
As I argued in a recent article, "Reviving a Policy Marriage," such a harmonization of financial supervision and macroeconomic management can be the key to happy cyclical endings in the long-term.
Daily health self-management, such as the harmonization of food, exercise and medication, is a major problem for a large group of older adults with obesity or diabetics.
EPITARGET is also anticipating the future challenges and requirements in a larger-scale preclinical harmonization of epilepsy studies, including training, data management expertise, cost, location, data safety and continuity of data repositories during and after funding period, and incentives motivating for the use of CDEs.
A number of specific projects focus on external quality assurance, basic laboratory information systems, strengthening laboratory management towards accreditation, equipment calibration, harmonization of training materials, networking and provision of pre-packaged laboratory kits to support outbreak investigation.
