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What he says is literally impossible.. it hasn't even been a decade since the Gates foundation started funding polio eradication. The first the Gates foundation
by rgbrenner 11y ago
What he says is literally impossible.. it hasn't even been a decade since the Gates foundation started funding polio eradication. The first the Gates foundation did anything was in 2007, when they gave $100m.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/11/27/gates_group_gives_100m_to_polio_fight/ http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/1...
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2007/11/Rotary-International-and-Gates-Foundation-Together-Commit-$200-million-to-Eradicate-Polio http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2...
And that money (along with $100m from Rotary International) went to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which is the World Health Org's immunization program (started in 1988).
- dekhn 11y ago8 years, not 10, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser In 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requested Intellectual Ventures LLC to find a way to fight and eventually end malaria. Intellectual Ventures resurrected the idea of using lasers to kill mosquitoes and now has a working prototype.[2] The idea has been criticized because most areas where malaria is prevalent do not have reliable electrical power.[3]
- ForHackernews 11y agoThere's no vaccine for malaria. You have to either invent one (I'm sure there are people trying) or try some other strategy.
- rgbrenner 11y agoGood point. In fairness though, that began with a $100k challenge to Intellectual Ventures, and they came up with the idea. Gates then gave them $1m to continue developing it with the idea it could be used to protect large areas. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/laser_mpsquito_repellent/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/laser_mpsquito_repel... The funding is peanuts compared to what Gates has been spent on Malaria.. here's a couple of the press releases I could find for 2003 ($160m), 2005 (250m) and 2008 ($200m). http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2003/09/Grants-for-Malaria-Research http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2... http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2008/03/Malaria-Partners-Letter http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2... http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2005/10/Gates-Foundation-Commits-2583-Million-for-Malaria-Research http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2...
- maxerickson 11y agoSo you are discounting the $100 million pragmatic investment made in 2007 because there was a much smaller contemporaneous pie in the sky investment? This page discusses their similarly large pragmatic investments in malaria prevention, through things like insecticide spraying and bed nets: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Malaria http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Mala...