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Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Michel D. Kazatchkine, the Global Fund's executive director, said Monday "it is also now ...

... 5, was injected with 0.5mg of the BCG vaccine - 10 times the usual 0.05mg dose, lawyers for his family said. A statement from law firm Irwin Mitchell ... immunology at Sheffield Children's Hospital. A spokesman for Scunthorpe General Hospital

Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday. But those gains depend on the world continuing to ramp up ...

It turns out individuals who are heterozygous for LTA4H, meaning they carry two versions of the enzyme-encoding gene and produce an average amount of the enzyme (not too little or too much), are less likely to succumb to tuberculosis. They also ...