Gates Commits $400 Million to Test New TB Vaccine On Thousands In Africa & Southeast Asia

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust have unveiled plans to fund a phase 3 clinical trial for a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. Testing of the ‘long awaited vaccine’ will begin next year on 26,000 human guinea pigs in Africa and Southeast Asia and will take four to six years to complete. The Gates … Read more