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...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this summer awarded a $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that battles multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...
...What the foundation has done has really shaken up the entire public health world," said Jim Y. Kim, instructor in medicine and the grant's principal investigator. "Even a year ago no one would say we have to think about MDR-TB all over the world...but the Gates Foundation is taking...
...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...
...done a lot work in TB. I think this is just another component in what we're trying to do in that area," said Annemarie Hou, a spokesperson for the Foundation...
...world is changing for poorer people and their health," he said. "Where we would like to end up is for people to look back at this time and say there was a day when we thought it was okay not to treat TB and HIV in poor countries, can you imagine, what were they thinking...