Johannesburg — A PARTNERSHIP between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in the US and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) will establish an international research centre focused on contributing to the effort to control the "co-epidemic" of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, and on training African scientists.
The two institutions announced yesterday that the HHMI had committed $60m (R578m) to the project, with $20m (R192m) going to the construction of facilities for the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), and the rest disbursed in tranches of about $4m a year over the next 10 years.
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