November 10, 2005
Anti-Malaria Efforts Get $258-Million From Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced last week $258.3-million in grants for research to develop a vaccine for malaria and other efforts to fight the deadly disease.
Calling the disease a "forgotten epidemic," Mr. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, said more needs to be done to stop malaria, which kills about 1 million people a year.
"It's really a tragedy that the world has done so little to stop this disease that kills 2,000 African children every day," said Mr.
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