11/10/06

Netherlands funds TB research

At the recent World Conference on Lung Health, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a $38.3 million investment in three partnerships working to develop drugs and vaccines to fight tuberculosis.

The commitment is the largest investment a single country has made in research of the illness to date.

Billed as the second-deadliest infectious disease behind AIDS, tuberculosis kills nearly 2 million people each year.

[Philanthropy Journal]

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