PATH, the nonprofit organization that works to reduce health disparities worldwide, has nailed down a pair of grants worth $52 million to prevent HIV and improve how communities respond to the epidemic. One grant for $35 million over three years from the U.S. Agency for International Development, to strengthen the public health response to HIV in Ethiopia. The other is a three-year, $17 million grant from the Canadian International Development Agency to strengthen HIV prevention efforts.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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