# The South African Medical Research Council welcomes Science, Technology, and Innovation minister, Blade Nzimande’s plan, to set up a science and innovation funding group after the US government pulled out major health research programmes. The council states this sudden funding loss threatens vital work on diseases like HIV, tuberculosis and other diseases. The council’s spokesperson, Tendani Tsedu, says the research council is also working to raise two-billion-rand to strengthen local health research:
Medical council backs new STI funding group amid US withdrawal from key research programmes [SOUND]
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