Africa: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announces $200 Million Grant to Accelarate Research on "Grand Challenges" in Global Health

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Davos — Grants to help overcome scientific roadblocks in AIDS, malaria, other diseases

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $200 million grant to establish the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major new effort and partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The initiative will identify critical scientific challenges in global health and increase research on diseases that cause millions of deaths in the developing world. Today only 10 percent of medical research is devoted to the diseases that cause 90 percent of the health burden in the world, according to the Global Forum on Health Research.

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