The European Union and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today (10 June) pledged to pool resources for research into HIV/Aids, tuberculosis, malaria and other poverty-related diseases.  

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European commissioner for research and innovation, signed the agreement in Paris with Bill Gates, the co-founder of the poverty charity.

The two will partner to develop treatments for poverty-related diseases, which affect more than one billion people  worldwide, particularly in developing countries.

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