Micrsoft founder to treble anti-TB funding

MICROSOFT chairman and co-founder Bill Gates yesterday said his charitable foundation would triple its funding for tuberculosis eradication to $900 million (€744m) by 2015.

Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 - 00:00

This is part of a larger campaign announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to stop tuberculosis worldwide.

The disease killed 1.6 million people in 2005.

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