Gates gives $168 million more to fight malaria
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
At a rural clinic in Mozambique, Bill and Melinda Gates yesterday increased their investment in the global fight against malaria by $168 million -- and, in doing so, increased the world's malaria research budget by about 30 percent.
"Malaria kills over a million people every year," Bill Gates said. "This is something we should demand more action on."
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which already has contributed $120 million to anti-malaria projects, upped the ante yesterday with $100 million for malaria vaccine research, $40 million for studies of new drugs and $28 million in support of an innovative project to test if giving infants a few doses of anti-malaria drugs along with their basic vaccines will protect against the disease.