Research Funding

Gates Foundation announces multimillion dollar donation

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 14th, 2003

Touring a malaria clinic where they sat on reed mats while coddling babies, Bill and Melinda Gates announced a $168 million grant to accelerate research into malaria, a disease that kills over a million people each year, most of them young African children.

The grant, announced in September by the world's richest man and his wife, is the largest ever single donation toward fighting the mosquito-borne disease. Malaria is making a deadly comeback in Africa, the world's poorest continent, as strains of the disease become increasingly resistant to treatment.

"I hope we bring a message of commitment and optimism," said Gates, the Microsoft tycoon who has...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2003-10-14)

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