Health

Gates will fight malaria
by Nina Gotzmannova

Bill and Melinda Gates, the world's wealthiest couple, has another thing to ‘play' with. They decided to fight malaria and exterminate it from the Earth surface. The pair just decided to say stop to this disease and help all the people who suffer from it or who live in malaria affected region. Melinda Gates said that anything short of eradication would be a bad business decision. The prominent couple recently donates $ 860 million to malaria programs trough the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and another $ 650 million to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This act showed their decision is absolute and with no exceptions. Melinda Gates also said that although the fight with malaria in 1950s and 1960s in United States and other developed countries was successful, it doesn't mean that the fight has ended. Other parts of the world still suffer from danger of infection of this deadly disease. Each year almost 650 million people catch malaria and one to three million dies. Unfortunately most of them are young children in Sub-Saharan Africa and mostly this is the reason, why the Gates couple wants to eradicate the disease. There are already developed some new, successful vaccines to use for kids. It is safe for infants and more effective in preventing new infections. Another way how to fight malaria is to develop medications and control the insects, which spread the disease. Bill Gates is the richest man of the world. He can obviously afford to spend more money to fight a lot of disease, not only malaria. Most possibly he would be able to save lot of African countries with providing food, drinks, medications, blankets and more. So why just fight one disease? Why not to try to save with his billions the world? There is a big chance he can do it…

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_he_me/gates_malaria;_ylt=Ak6zTWcmCgTjKKmIJIPVzeKs0NUE

by Nina Gotzmannova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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