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Monday 22 September 2003
Bill Gates boosts war on malaria
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The founder of the Microsoft software company Bill Gates has given 168,000,000 dollars to help in the fight against malaria. Around 1,000,000 people a year are killed by the disease, mostly in Africa, and numbers are growing due to increasing drug resistance. This report from the BBC's Southern Africa correspondent, Barnaby Phillips: |
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Bill Gates, along with his wife Melinda, visited a malaria treatment and research centre north of the Mozambican capital Maputo.
Mr Gates said that malaria is robbing Africa of its people and potential. United Nations officials warn that malaria does not only inflict terrible suffering, it's also damaging Africa's economies.
The grant from the Bill Gates Foundation will help to fund the search for a vaccine as well as develop new drugs and new preventative measures to fight the mosquito-borne disease.
Malaria and AIDS both kill thousands of African children each day.
Barnaby Phillips, BBC
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malaria treatment and research centre
a place providing care and study into malaria
robbing
taking from
potential
if something has potential it is capable of being useful
inflict
if you inflict something on someone, you make them suffer
grant
money given for a special purpose
Foundation
an organisation that provides money for a special purpose
to fund
to provide money for
preventative measures
ways of avoiding something
mosquito-borne
carried by mosquitoes
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