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But analysis is limited by small number of funders in the study
South Africa comes fifth in a study that counts the number of health research grants received by researchers around the world in 2016 from ten global research funders.
In a paper published by World Health Organization researchers on 17 February, only the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Sweden do better at winning health grants from the funders.