Acting in response to the devastating Ebola outbreak in four West Africa nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Wednesday, 10 September, 2014 that it has pledged $50 million to help combat the epidemic.
Bill Gates in Africa
The grant is meant to enable such agencies and national governments to purchase “needed supplies and scale up emergency operations in affected countries,” the foundation said.
It was also gathered that the grant will also be used to develop therapies, vaccines and diagnostic tests to treat patients and prevent further transmission of the often-fatal disease.
“We are working urgently with our partners to identify the most effective ways to help them save lives now and stop transmission of this deadly disease,” said Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation. “We also want to accelerate the development of treatments, vaccines and diagnostics that can help end this epidemic and prevent future outbreaks.”
Bill Gate, God bless u and ur family for what u re doing for Africa, but do u know that some of our leaders will want d money to be given to them so they can steal it and transfer it abroad, sir becareful about who u give d money to. God bless u Bill
ReplyDeleteJust look at what some from outside is doing for us, d 1.9b FG gave to health ministry some is saying he will use it to buy cars, small minded people, what about resaech discoveries in d health sector must we depend on white man, Africa think. Fr E
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