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Great culture to promote World TB Day 2005 in Toronto

LOVESICK: How a romantic vacation in the sun triggered fears of a deadly epidemic

The photograph, framed and displayed on a cabinet in the living room of Hilary Lomas's apartment in Hamilton, Ontario, harks back to a happier time. Five women in their late thirties to late forties (women who, at the moment the shutter clicked, might have referred to themselves sportingly as "girls"), are leaning into the gently curving trunks of an almond tree on a beach, smiling happily. Sand at their feet and an azure sea in the background. Hilary is fetching in a slim black dress. It is 1992, at a Puerto Plata resort, on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
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Health expert puts price on world's health needs

It would take about $10 billion per year to straighten out much of the world's health situation, says Dr. David Nabarro, executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO). He also made three other observations: that that figure is not too much to ask of the rich nations of the world to give to the poor ones; plus it would be in their interest to do so, and it isn't going to happen.
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A Major Grant to Fight Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb 27, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (grant awarded pre-merger to SmithKline Beecham) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was awarded a $2.4 million grant for the development of a new drug active against multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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Mandela, UK's Brown Join Fight on Child Poverty

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on Monday joined forces with former South African President Nelson Mandela to tackle global child poverty.
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TB Threat is growing in suburbs

Even as overall tuberculosis rates decline, worried health officials are marshaling resources to treat a group that has defied the trend: emigrants from the developing world who unwittingly bring the TB bacteria into this country. And with more such people heading straight for suburbia, where they may be spread out and far from public health centers, those officials expect it to be even harder to stem the growth of the disease.
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