Gates for health

• April 25, 2024

The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates , will finance some programs to combat the 10 diseases tropical diseases that occur most frequently in developing countries, such as malaria wave leprosy , with a donation of 275 million euros, in five years.

With the help of organizations, institutions and pharmaceutical companies, the aim is to raise 595 million euros, to increase research in new cures and in the distribution of drugs specialized

To achieve its objective, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will join 13 major pharmaceutical companies and institutions such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United States government, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.

As well as Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK, Eisai, Bayer, Gilead, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, MSD, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Abbott and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

The second richest man in the world according to Forbes, plans to eradicate by 2020, diseases such as filariasis lymphatic, the trachoma , disease of the dream , the leprosy , the helminth parasite control, the disease of Chagas or leishmaniasis.

This project is the most ambitious in the fight against this type of suffering, which includes the extension of diagnoses, the donation and distribution of medicines, the research to develop new drugs and the reinforcement of the health systems of the affected countries.

Diseases in figures

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the diseases endemic in many tropical countries, especially in Africa and South Asia, they cause the death of half a million people a year, and affect about one billion people, worldwide.

Currently, the estimated number of people with trachoma The cause of blindness has fallen from 360 million people in 1985 to approximately 80 million; while the leprosy is about to be eliminated as a public health problem and cases have decreased from 5.2 million in 1985 to less than 213 thousand.

These types of conditions are mainly diseases Infectious diseases that proliferate in impoverished environments, especially in the hot and humid environment of tropical climates.

Most are parasitic diseases transmitted by insects, such as mosquitoes, blackflies, sand flies, tsetse fly, vinchuca and so-called dirt flies. Others are spread by contaminated water and soil infested by worm eggs. And you, would you like to help?

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