Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria

klubar writes to tell us that Bill Gates has donated approximately $258 million to fight malaria. From the article: "Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life lost to diseases, according to a report released Sunday." Gates was quoted saying "The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D."

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[TheWanderingHermit]

While your joking, there is an ugly bit of truth to that. The Gates Foundation has been known to make donations that conveniently relate to areas where Microsoft is pushing to make inroads to to keep FOSS out. For example, when MS was dealing with India, they made a big deal that the Gates Foundation was donating some supposedly huge amount to some type of medical research in India. In another article it was announced Microsoft was spending 2x as much in advertising in the same geographic area.

So if they're donating roughly $.25 billion to Malaria research, my first question is what geographical areas deal with malaria, and is MS spending $.5 billion in advertising in the same area?