Gateses Give $47 Million to Bolster Coordinated Assaults on Diseases
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The grants aim to test the idea that diseases such as trachoma and hookworm, which largely afflict the rural poor, can be tackled together more effectively than one at a time.
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Biotech companies, medical device   makers and food manufacturers joined patient groups and three   former U.S. health secretaries on Monday in calling for   increased funding for the Food and Drug Administration.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria needs about $248 million to expand its anti-AIDS program and provide life-saving pills for 200,000 of its 3.5 million citizens infected with the virus, the country&#39;s health minister said Wednesday.
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The head of the Bush administration's global AIDS plan said he is taking steps that would permit the United States to give more money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria this year than previously planned.
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Research to develop new and improved treatments for cancer was given a further boost with the announcement of $1.9 million ( 1.1 million) a year to fund fifteen international fellowships.
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria urged donors on Friday to pay up what they have pledged by the end of next month or risk seeing the United States cut short its contribution.
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TORONTO -- The Canadian government and Bill Gates yesterday announced an initiative to establish a research institute to develop an AIDS vaccine, committing up to $119 million to the project.
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Arizona State University's new Biodesign Institute is getting a five-year, &#36;7.4 million federal grant to work on drugs that kill sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS.
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The countryâs top experts on tuberculosis called for a vast increase in federal research dollars and asked for expanded authority to restrict travel by infected persons.
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Combating malaria has been one of the primary goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and its latest gift of $42.6 million will fund a nonprofit drug company&#39;s high-tech take on an ancient Chinese remedy.
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Bill Gates, whose philanthropic foundation has donated nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, on Sunday called for countries to "dig deep" to halt the deadly virus that causes the disease.
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A United Nations-backed national anti-malaria campaign in Ethiopia today appealed for urgent funding to fill a shortfall of over 50 per cent in aid needed to combat a potential upsurge in the disease that could affect more than 6 million people within the
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on  Monday pledged $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for  better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease  that kills more than a million people a year.
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Biotech companies, medical device  makers and food manufacturers joined patient groups and three  former U.S. health secretaries on Monday in calling for  increased funding for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Britain's largest medical research charity pledges Â£4bn to investigate the world's killer diseases.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday approved a $463.5 billion funding bill to keep the  government running this year, while adding money to care for  veterans wounded in Iraq and stepping up the global struggle  against HIV/AIDS.
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The United States will set aside  $120 million for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis  and Malaria to give European donors time to come up with a  bigger share for 2004, the U.S. AIDS czar said on Wednesday.