Word: peru
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...news only for the narco-traffickers and the Marxist tycoons who protect them. On the other hand, regional leaders have pointed out that even if "Plan Colombia" succeeds in lowering production of narcotics in that country, that would simply displace the problem across the border into Brazil, Venezuela or Peru. As long as there's a bullish market for drugs in the U.S. and grinding poverty in Latin America, there's little chance of eliminating the cocaine industry. So "Plan Colombia" remains a high-stakes gamble that may well force Clinton's successor to be more engaged with Latin America...
...largest ever private donation to fight tuberculosis, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week awarded a five-year, $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that will use the funds to battle multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...
...Gates Foundation grant will be used to try to eradicate all cases of MDR-TB in Peru, the first effort by any organization to eliminate the resistant strains...
...There is no program that has effectively taken on MDR-TB," Kim said. "Because we've been working in Peru and they have the best national program for TB control it's a great place for us to start...
...hope, according to a press release from the Gates Foundation, is that the project in Peru will then be able to be used as a model for other countries...