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Application Deadline: 3 September 2020

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Be either a non-profit entity, research institution, for-profit social enterprise, or a team of such organizations. Individuals must apply through an institutional sponsor. Partnerships are welcome but only the lead applicant will receive funds.
Have a mission supporting societal good, broadly defined. 
Have all necessary national or other approvals to conduct proposed research. The approval process may be conducted in parallel with grant application, if necessary. Approval costs, if any, are the responsibility of the applicant. 
Have the technical capacity to conduct dataset labeling, creation, expansion, and/or maintenance. 
Be sufficiently stable to ensure the sustainability of the dataset or have arrangements with an organization of sufficient stability.

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Woman dies after taking 2 liters of blood from her body

Two nurses accused of causing the death of a citizen in the municipality of Soyo, Zaire province, were arrested Friday by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC).

According to the spokesman of the Provincial Delegation of the internal Ministry, Luís Bernardo, in statements to the press today, the misfortune occurred in one of the private medical posts in the neighborhood Nkungu-yengele, outskirts of the village, where the 26 years old victim, went to treat a supposed malaria.

"In the health unit she was diagnosed with high hemoglobin (excess blood in the body), and the alleged nurses decided to remove about two liters of blood in the body, causing immediate death to the patient", he explained.

It is suspected that nurses had performed this operation without the slightest mastery of the profession. Reasons why, they are being, for this, implicated in the crime of involuntary manslaughter.

On the same day, the SIC detained in the neighborhood 11 November, outskirts of Mbanza Kongo, a 27-year-old citizen accused of having sexually assaulted his older sister.