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...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...
...What the foundation has done has really shaken up the entire public health world," said Instructor in Medicine Jim Y. Kim, the principal investigator for the grant. "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...
...recent years, a bigger problem has begun to loom. Improper use of tuberculosis medications has led to the creation of the MDR-TB strains, which are resistant to cocktails of even four or five drugs. Currently 11 percent of all tuberculosis cases are resistant to at least one drug...
...FROM: TB...
...budget I give you invests $150 million more in the fight against this and other infectious killers. And today, I propose a tax credit to speed the development of vaccines for diseases like malaria, TB and AIDS. I ask the private sector and our partners around the world to join us in embracing this cause. We can save millions of lives together, and we ought...