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Gates Foundation Pledges $50 Million to Fight Ebola Gates Foundation Pledges $50 Million to Fight Ebola
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $50 million on Wednesday to the fight against Ebola in West Africa, the largest sum it has ever committed to one outbreak. It had already offered $12 million to the World Health Organization, Unicef and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support their work to contain the outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The new money will be available for emergency operations and to help develop drugs, diagnostics or vaccines, Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, the foundation’s chief executive, said. United Nations officials recently estimated that defeating this outbreak would cost at least $600 million. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $50 million on Wednesday to the fight against Ebola in West Africa, the largest sum it has ever committed to one outbreak. It had already offered $12 million to the World Health Organization, Unicef and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support their work to contain the outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The new money will be available for emergency operations and to help develop drugs, diagnostics or vaccines, Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, the foundation’s chief executive, said. . Officials at the United Nations recently estimated that defeating this Ebola outbreak would cost at least $600 million.