South Africa: Funding Secured for Massive TB Vaccine Trial

[spotlight] A massive and much-anticipated phase 3 trial of an experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine is set to proceed after funding for it has been secured from two large philanthropies. Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Wednesday announced they'd be investing a combined $550 million into the trial - around $150 million from Wellcome and the remaining from the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, a nonprofit subsidiary of the BMGF.
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine NGOs and Civil Society South Africa Southern Africa Tuberculosis Source Type: news