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Bill Gates: What’s More Important – Connectivity or Curing Disease?

November 1, 2013 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires believe. But eradicating disease just might. Bill Gates describes himself as a technocrat. But he does not believe that technology will save the world. Or, to be more precise, he does not believe it can solve a tangle of entrenched and interrelated problems … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria News Tagged With: Bill Gates

Phase III Trial of RTS,S Malaria Candidate Vaccine Reduces Malaria by One Third

November 9, 2012 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

Results from a pivotal, large-scale Phase III trial, published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria. When compared to immunization with a control vaccine, infants (aged 6-12 weeks at first vaccination) vaccinated with RTS,S had one-third fewer episodes of both clinical and severe malaria … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria News Tagged With: Andrew Witty, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, David Kaslow, GlaxoSmithKline, Malaria Vaccine, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), RTSS Vaccine, Salim Abdulla

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