Gates Adds $600 Million to Anti-Tuberculosis Effort
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › January 28, 2006
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Bill Gates pledged Friday to triple his foundation's funding for eradicating tuberculosis to a total of $900 million by 2015, and health experts at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urged renewed caution against the spread of bird flu.
The funding is part of a larger campaign against TB, which killed 1.6 million people worldwide last year. Gates, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and British treasury chief Gordon Brown called for help to prevent 14 million tuberculosis deaths over the next decade.See the full content of this document
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