Word: tb
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Pharmaceutical companies’ reluctance to invest in drugs for diseases like TB leads some to question whether for-profit firms have a productive role to play in treating the world’s poorest. “There are lots of ways of skinning cats, but I don’t think that realistically you can ask corporations to undertake not-for-profit roles,” Whitesides says...
...foundation has already funneled more than $6.6 billion to global health initiatives—meaning that HIV, TB, and infectious disease researchers like Edwards have a new funding source of unprecedented size...
...restricting its grantees’ profits, and requiring that they distribute to developing countries, the Gates Foundation is lowering financial barriers that keep medicines like Edwards’ TB spray and Yale’s Zerit beyond the reach of the world’s impoverished...
...Harvard TB vaccine spray is an early breakthrough in that effort. It seems likely that the spray will soon travel from Edwards’ lab north of the Yard to South Africa—one of MEND’s bases—and beyond...
...meantime, about 9 million more people will fall ill with TB in the next year, putting their unvaccinated family members at risk...