$18M Donation to Target Mosquito-borne Diseases

An international coalition of governments and philanthropic organizations has donated $18 million to fight Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses. The money will target the illnesses in Colombia and Brazil with a unique mosquito-control program.  The funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the British government, as well as Britain’s Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be used to scale up the innovative, widely praised program being...

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