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Gates donates $750 million to fight diseases

Bill Gates

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Thursday.

Senh: Good to see the Gates spending their fortunes helping people around the world rather than buying more mansions or lamborghinis.

 

Smelly socks could help curb malaria

Smelly socks could help curb malaria

Finding that disease-bearing mosquitoes are drawn to foot odor, researchers in Africa, which accounts for 90% of malaria deaths worldwide, are planning to use the smell from sweaty socks in traps.

 

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could Dramatically Reduce Spread Of Malaria

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could Dramatically Reduce Spread Of Malaria

Scientists working on malaria have found a way of genetically manipulating large populations of mosquitoes that could eventually dramatically reduce the spread of the deadly disease.

 

AP Exclusive: Global Fund says millions worth of donated malaria drugs stolen in Africa

AP Exclusive: Global Fund says millions worth of donated malaria drugs stolen in Africa

A global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years — perhaps even hundreds of millions worth — vastly exceeding the levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press.

 

Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquitoes On Audience At Tech Conference

"Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED and said, 'Not only poor people should experience this.'" That was the post by Facebook's Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin on social networking site Twitter.

 

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