Gates Give Over $400 Million To Fight Disease

By Nathan Weinberg - Tue, 06/28/2005 - 12:06pm.

Bill Gates is using his money to help out again, this time to fight disease. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced 43 new projects totaling $436 million.

From the Associated Press:

The money will pay for research ranging from finding AIDS vaccines to boosting the nutritional content of bananas.

Among the projects funded:

A research team will get $5million to create childhood vaccines that don't need refrigeration. The vaccines could be distributed in packets for people to mix with water and drink.

Four grants totaling $47 million are being given to researchers fighting malnutrition by genetically boosting the nutritional content of bananas, cassava, rice and sorghum.

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