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Last-minute wins for US science

23 December 2011 This story originally implied that the total US contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is $298 million. This is just how much the National Institutes of Health was set to provide in 2012, and which will now be given instead by the Department of State. The text has been amended to clarify this.

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    This story originally implied that the total US contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is $298 million. This is just how much the National Institutes of Health was set to provide in 2012, and which will now be given instead by the Department of State. The text has been amended to clarify this.

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Semeniuk, I., Young, S. Last-minute wins for US science. Nature 480, 423 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480423a

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