The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is joining Pfizer Inc. and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation as part of its $1 billion dollar effort to make it more accessible for women in poor countries to receive contraceptives. Depo-Provera, the injectable contraceptive has been a favorite among women in Asia and Africa. Getting these shots, however, would require a lengthy journey to a … [Read more...]
Oregon Research Team Receives $25 Million to Find HIV Vaccine from Gates Foundation
Bill Gates has been incredibly active after he retired from Microsoft. With a huge fortune accumulated after years of high-tech entrepreneurship, the IT innovator decided to act towards reducing the world’s poverty by funding original ideas. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded numerous teams tackling transmittable diseases. Gates decided to even fund the best idea for a next generation condom … [Read more...]
Notre Dam gets $23 million from Gates foundation for dengue, malaria research work
The researchers at the University of Notre Dame has been awarded USD 23 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their significant work in the field of health studies related to diseases like malaria and dengue fever. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has honored the five-year project of biologists Neil Lobo and Nicole Achee. Both the biologists have carried studies that … [Read more...]
