Medical news

The global fund against Malaria and Tb had a lot of funding diverted, and the pills sold on the black market.

heh. Welcome to the "third world"...
the bad news is if you insist on too strict guidelines, no one will be helped. All you can do is try to keep the corruption down...
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Good news about the Gates foundation here.

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A TB vaccine? BBC doesn't give many details.

TB relies on cellular immunity, so if you get BCG, you merely get better cellular immunity so are less prone to get TB (not complete protection, but you get a "secondary" case, i.e. not widespread TB all over before the immune system kicks in).

This 2008 article explores the various vaccines in the pipeline...and for practical reasons, they are trying to make it an intranasal or oral vaccine.

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BBC also has a report on using the pneumococcal vaccine in Africa, to prevent pneumonia (and pneumococcal meningitis).