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Gates Foundation Gives $220 Million to Find New Vaccines for TB

Gates Foundation Gives $220 Million to Find New Vaccines for TB

By Editor on March 20, 2012

One of the world’s largest not-for-profit biotechs will receive a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of up to $220 million over five years to develope modern vaccines to combat TB against the backdrop of a significant increase in drug-resistant strains.

Posted in Featured, Research & Education | Tagged Aeras, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Health News Texas, TB, Trevor Mundel, tuberculosis, Vaccines, WHO, World Health Organization. | Leave a response

African Student’s Circle of Service on the Mercy Ship

African Student’s Circle of Service on the Mercy Ship

By Editor on March 9, 2012

A young Sierra Leonean woman has made a trip back to the African country of her birth as a volunteer onboard the Africa Mercy, a floating hospital operated by Garden Valley, Tx Mercy Ships. She is alive today thanks to a Mercy Ships medical intervention by one of its doctors almost two decades ago.

Posted in Featured, Pro Bono | Tagged Africa, bstetric fistula, Clinical Associate Professor of Urology at New York University’s Langone Medical Center Africa Mercy, Dr. Lauri Romanzi, Health News Texas, Mercy Ships, New York University’s Langone Medical Center, Newsroom Ink, pregnancy, Sierra Leone, under developed nations, WHO, World Health Organization. | Leave a response

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