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Cash for AIDS, TB and malaria research

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa's Medical Research Council (MRC) will receive close to US $672 million from the European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership to help combat HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.

    The donor body's executive director, Piero Olliaro, told Reuters that the money will fund 18 clinical trials in Africa and nine in Europe over the next three years.

    Olliaro said: "Regulations and ethics today require that clinical trials be conducted to meet the highest standards. Thus, we must ensure that the capacities exist in Africa to meet these requirements."

    At least $4.2 million has been budgeted for the first year and a clinical trials registry to document past and present research will be set up.

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