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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funnelling nearly US$300 million into research to produce new tools to fight tuberculosis, an old foe whose growing resistance to existing treatments has global public health authorities seriously concerned.

The money, part of a previously announced commitment to fund US$900 million worth of tuberculosis research by 2015, is divided into 11 grants aimed at accelerating testing of potential new vaccines as well as speeding development of new drugs and diagnostic tests.

All these tools are badly needed, experts say.

"I more than welcome this type of initiative," said Dr. Mario Raviglione, head of the World Health Organization's Stop TB program.

"If we cannot diagnose TB more rapidly, if we cannot treat it with new drugs and in the end ultimately prevent it with potentially a much more effective vaccine than what we have today we're going to suffer as humanity in the face of this epidemic."

The WHO estimates that a third of the world's population is infected with TB bacilli, the germs that cause tuberculosis, and one in 10 of those people will go on to develop active disease over the course of their lifetime.

For those with access to drugs, regular tuberculosis is cumbersome to treat, requiring months of antibiotic therapy.

But strains of the bacteria have developed multi-drug resistance or even extensive drug resistance. For people newly infected with those strains - and people whose strains develop high-level resistance because they don't follow their drug regime religiously - TB can be lethal.

source: www.medbroadcast.com

hahahhahahah abi nako sa TUbag Bohol hahhahahhahhahhah

Quote from: ms da binsi on September 19, 2007, 11:18:45 AM
hahahhahahah abi nako sa TUbag Bohol hahhahahhahhahhah

Si Balong kay Tuba Bohol man. Bisan unsa nalang acronym aning Tubag Bohol. But the more fitting is TBTK. Tubag Bohol Tibuok Kalibutan.

Bitaw ganahan ko ana.,.

ako pud, abi nako'g tubag bohol...

pareha jud ta'g utok, ms belle...hehehe...we're like a pea in a pod, carrots and peas...peanut butter and jelly...gordon's gin and lime juice...

hahaha!

Ebony and Ivory, Sonny and Cher, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Romeo and Juliet, Tarzan and Barok?

abi bitaw pod nako ug tubag bohol.  hehehhe kuyawa gud sa tb ug maoy nahatagan ni bill gates.  hehehehe

oui daghan na ta naka-abi ani kay abi sab nako tubag bohol

Ang title ni Mike mana ilad... hahahhahha

hahahaha clever au jud oi.

Quote from: Sigbin II on September 19, 2007, 02:46:29 PM
Ebony and Ivory, Sonny and Cher, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Romeo and Juliet, Tarzan and Barok?

itlog maalat and kamatis, lechon and mang tomas, sikwate and puto maya...

yum yum yum!

Quote from: C2H4 on September 20, 2007, 08:39:12 AM
itlog maalat and kamatis, lechon and mang tomas, sikwate and puto maya...

yum yum yum!

hoy ibalhin ni sa pares-pares.... hahahahha lafang gihapon....

sikwate, puto maya, ug mangga

puto ug dugo-dugo

kalamay ug pan bohol

spaghetti ug bihon hehehe

hhahhahahahhahha si Sigbin sweteks kaajo...



Bitaw no? diri sa Merika ang ilang nahibaw-an bread and butter ra man???

manggang hilaw ug ginamos!   

Hala!

Mr Sigbin, pareson diay nang spaghetti ug bihon?

ngeh

behon kaha hinoon ug loaf bread.  kana gani ipalaman ang behon sa bread.  common kaau na inigparty sa mga bata sa school, labi na ug christmas party.  hehehhehe

biko ug kape pod

hmmmmm huhuhuhuhu gimingaw na ko sa biko nga naay pagod sa ibabaw willsmith...

mao ba, tigluto baya pod ko usahay ug biko dire kaso lang way pagod sa ibabaw (malagkit man tawag namo ana).  mas lami jud sa atoa oi.  bitaw gimingaw na jud ko ana

Quote from: ms da binsi on September 19, 2007, 11:18:45 AM
hahahhahahah abi nako sa TUbag Bohol hahhahahhahhahhah

pareha ta, i thought tubagbohol! that would be nice!

Yeah, naa bitaw bag-ong strains, ug mga bag-ong infected sa US karon...highly resistant gyud. Super germs...