The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York has promised R40-million for the proposed medical research institute at the Nelson R Mandela Medical School at the University of Natal in Durban, and for a major multi-disciplinary programme to fight the killer Aids virus.
Aids researchers and experts have heralded the mooted donation as a huge boost to the struggle to find a cure for the disease.
The foundation said its first donation of R15-million marked the body's first direct investment in clinical research infrastructure in Africa.
The foundation's second grant of R22,5 million would support a multi-disciplinary collaboration between South African and US researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard Medical School and the University of Natal Medical School.
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The Nelson Mandela Medical School's Professor Jerry Coovadia said last night that South Africans had come to realise that the Aids epidemic was such an overwhelming catastrophe that the country needed the support of the international community as well as its own people.
"Nothing less will do if we are to discover and apply relevant measures to reverse the tide of this fatal disease."
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