Gates Foundation looks to fight malaria
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Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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Scientists are one step closer to a vaccine against one of the world&#39;s most devastating diseases. Malaria causes more than 300 million cases of illness and claims at least a million lives every year.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa and Asia.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation took its support of AIDS-related research and care to a new level Wednesday, announcing a half-billion-dollar grant to a global fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries.
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WASHINGTON -- Laura Bush will open a White House summit on malaria today to rally global partners and ordinary Americans, including schoolchildren, to work together to eliminate the scourge, which kills about 1 million people a year, mostly in Africa.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation took its support of AIDS-related research and care to a new level Wednesday, announcing a $500 million grant to an international fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries.
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Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation has contributed nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, said Sunday that the search for HIV prevention drugs could be the "next big breakthrough" in combating the disease.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Norway yesterday pledged more than $1 billion to vaccinate millions of children against diseases that often kill, but are easily preventable.
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The World Health Organization launched a new global effort on Monday to find a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year, and the donors to pay for it.
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The United Nations appointed businessman and philanthropist Ray Chambers on Thursday as special envoy for malaria to lead an ambitious bid to slash deaths from the disease in the next few years.
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Scientists develop a synthetic version of a herb-based drug to treat malaria.
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More poor countries may soon be pumping up their arsenal against malaria with DDT, the pesticide long banned in the United States.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund  to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the  fund, which says it sorely lacks cash.
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Researchers are developing a vaccine that blocks development of the malaria parasite while it is still inside the mosquito.
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Early tests of a potential vaccine for malaria show it offers a high level of protection.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is  donating $750 million to pay for wider vaccination programs in  developing countries, British newspapers said on Tuesday.