Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), addressed the importance of investing in innovation and harnessing the power of new global health technologies to achieve widespread impact on those suffering from disease in the most impoverished regions of the world. Dr. Shah’s speech, delivered at the 2010 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture, highlighted tuberculosis as one of the areas that provide opportunities for realizing transformative health-based successes through the development and introduction of new technologies and tools.
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In addition, other discussions in the policy realm toss around the idea that the government should get a return on the sale of drugs that were developed with federal funds in the face of high drug costs and medical care.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting letters of inquiry for the new grant program Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis.
