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Pamela Hepple, MSF Laboratory Specialist in TB diagnostics
1. Jul 2008 –
No Money at all for TB Diagnostics. If the case for funding research into TB drugs is dire, then the problem for funding TB diagnostics is appalling. Great advances could be achieved by improving the capacity to positively identify TB at the earliest juncture. But diagnostic research attracted only 7.3% of all global funding for TB in 2006 (source: TAG, July 2008). The EC did not provide any funding for TB diagnostics research either in 2006 nor in 2007.
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