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While You Were Gone

The case is pending.

--Imtiyaz H. Delawala

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this summer awarded a $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that battles multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru.

The gift was the largest private donation ever given to the fight against tuberculosis.

"What the foundation has done has really shaken up the entire public health world," said Jim Y. Kim, instructor in medicine and the grant's principal investigator. "Even a year ago no one would say we have to think about MDR-TB all over the world...but the Gates Foundation is taking [it] on."

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