By R. Sooryamoorthy
This booklet is key for an individual attracted to realizing how technology works nationally and across the world within the modern international. It bargains a accomplished research of clinical collaboration and its relation to improvement and the productiveness of scientists, with particular connection with South Africa in either the earlier and the current.
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Veterinary science, for the obvious reasons of its bearing on the population and economy, matured much faster than any other branch of science. European veterinarians were appointed in the early 1870s, and South Africa continued to obtain them from Britain, Ireland, Switzerland and Germany (Brown, 2005). In 1920, the government constituted its veterinary faculty at the University of Pretoria, the first in Africa (Brown, 2005). Simultaneously, medical science in South Africa made much headway. Its contribution to the detection, prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases was highly rated (Hofmeyr, 1929b).
Scientific cooperation among the African nations in the 1960s, as reported at the Conference of Ministers of African Member States Responsible for the Application of Science and Technology in Dakar in 1974, was not very impressive. The newly independent nations were consolidating themselves, and the lack of contacts between scientists, government functionaries and political leaders affected the momentum of collaboration (Keay, 1976). Later in 1973, a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was formed jointly by the FAO, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and some Western countries.
Despite having a weaker scientific system in the continent in general and in certain countries in particular, some countries have recognized the potential for growth and development through scientific cooperation. Contacts with the Western world were primarily and initially in medical, agricultural and life sciences that opened doors for cooperation between African and Western scientists. There were partners from countries in Europe and the US with whom scientific cooperation was instituted in specific areas.