Gates Foundation Invest $43 Million Dollars in Malaria Drug ...
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.
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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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A memo from the World Health Organization expressed concern that the growing importance of malaria research by the Gates Foundation could stifle a diversity of views among scientists.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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About 1.2 million people in countries hard hit by AIDS are receiving life-extending drugs thanks to two major U.S. and international funds, double from a year ago, but many millions more need help, the funds said on Friday.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has donated $400,000 to a campaign in California trying to win approval of a measure calling for the state to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund stem-cell research.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug  which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Malaria is billed as top priority in a new health   initiative being launched in Africa this week.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday that four grants totaling more than $68.2 million would go to fight three tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people each year in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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A vaccine against malaria, which kills up to three million people a year, could be a reality by the end of the decade, scientists involved in one of the biggest clinical trials in Africa said yesterday.
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Bill Gates, whose philanthropic foundation has donated nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, on Sunday called for countries to "dig deep" to halt the deadly virus that causes the disease.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has said it will spend all its assets within 50 years of them both dying, as the trustees want to focus the foundation's work in the 21st century.
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An international fund said on Wednesday it had greatly expanded malaria prevention and treatment efforts this year that have helped beat back the disease in pockets of Africa, but much more needs to be done.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday pledged $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease that kills more than a million people a year.