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New centre to accelerate drug development for diseases of low-income countries
A new centre to boost the development of drugs to tackle the foremost diseases of low-income countries is to be created at the University of Dundee.
A Tuberculosis candidate vaccine MVA85A is set to be subjected to further investigational trail involving people infected with HIV in two African countries to generate important safety, immunogenicity and efficacy data.
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Resistant Tuberculosis – Our Daunting New Challenge
April 2, 2012 No CommentAs the world marked World Tubercuosis Day, setting new targets to combat the disease which claims millions of lives annually, Nigeria worried about emerging cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis which poses a threat to the global effort to stop TB. Kingsley Obom-Egbulem examines this development and Nigeria’s readiness to deal with it Stigma and discrimination [...]
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