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Gates checks his TB/AIDS projects

    JOHANNESBURG

    Microsoft founder Bill Gates is in Cape Town, South Africa, to assess the progress of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) projects. He has already injected more than US$100 million into similar initiatives around the country.

    Gates arrived on Monday and, according to the local Cape Argus newspaper, has met with scientists involved in the global effort to develop a new TB vaccine.

    There is growing recognition that the global HIV and TB pandemics are feeding each other, and that tackling HIV requires also more effective tools for treating and preventing TB infection.

    The computer software billionaire was expected to consider further donations to the anti-AIDS initiatives after his visit.

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