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In the field of health and medicine, there is a long tradition of collaboration between developing countries and Western nations. These collaborative efforts have embraced teaching, research, and provision of training and personnel, as well as donations of resources and technological help. In the late 1990s, the medical press began to allocate significant space in their journals to the issue of such collaborations between health-care workers. Are inputs and outputs equal? How much of any assistance that has resulted has been based on the needs of, and is at the request of, the recipient health worker or institution? How has the ‘information gap’ been reduced? How can the problem of ‘Without funds you cannot carry out good research, but without good research you cannot attract funds’ be solved?