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Merck Matches Gates On Aid For Botswana

by Rick Mullin
August 30, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 35

Merck & Co. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing a total of $60 million to support Botswana’s African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), a public-private effort working to treat the estimated 137,000 people infected with HIV in the country. Merck’s $30 million contribution will be paid over the next five years. Merck and the Gates Foundation have already contributed a combined $106.5 million to ACHAP. Merck is also donating HIV medications to the group.

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