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Africa eyes India’s model to fight AIDS

July 31, 2012
A highly successful AIDS prevention programme launched in India by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has evoked great interest in Africa where over two thirds of people with the deadly disease live. "There is so much demand …

Gates foundation grants $220 mn to non-profit biotech firm to develop new TB vaccine

March 24, 2012
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a grant of up to US $220 million over five years to Aeras, one of the world's largest not-for-profit biotechs, developing modern vaccines to combat tuberculosis. The grant to …