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Eli Lilly To Pledge $30M To MDR-TB Partnership
Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Co. is expected to announce on Tuesday it "is pledging $30 million to help fight multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [MDR-TB] in developing countries, a disease that kills more than 150,000 people a year," according to the Indianapolis Star. The funds, part of the company's eight-year-old, $165 million Lilly MDR-TB Partnership, will help to "provide training for nurses, doctors and community volunteers; conduct studies on how to combat the disease; and provide access to medicines," the newspaper notes. The campaign will focus on China, India, Russia and South Africa, "the four countries with the highest burden of MDR-TB, Lilly said," the Indianapolis Star writes (10/25).
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