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Bill Gates Donates a Quarter Billion Dollars
Gates pledges millions to fight malaria: There are times when I hate Bill Gates, and times when I love him. This is one of the latter.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has pledged $258.3 million for research and development to combat malaria […]
The largest of the grants, $107.6 million, will go to a vaccine initiative on late-stage clinical trials of its experimental vaccine, Mosquirix.
Another $100 million will be ploughed into work to accelerate the development of several promising new drugs, while $50.7 million will pay for research to fast-track development of improved insecticides and other mosquito control methods.
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Here's the answer: Hate Bill, Love Melinda. We Seattle Gateswatchers noticed that His Geekiness became a lot more human-like when Melinda came into his life. Although Bill deserves equal credit for the good works, we suspect that Melinda is the driving force behind the B&MG Foundation.
Besides, she's kinda cute.
Aside: Bill's Dad, William Gates, Sr., is a powerful attorney who came out of a comfortable retirement to direct the Foundation's operations.
I just ran across an article in WORLD Magazine about malaria in Africa and the efforts to fight it.
The United States has been contributing about $200 million per year to Africa's war on malaria.
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And zero goes to the most effective weapon: the insecticide DDT, which eradicated malaria in Europe and the United States more than half a century ago, but was later banned in the West for its supposed environmental effects.
I am interested to see what will result from the $50.7 million for mosquito control. Will use of DDT (or some variant) be reconsidered?
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