The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday it is upping the ante in the fight against malaria and other diseases, increasing their yearly contribution to a total of $500 million.
Between this effort and those of vaccine producers and distributors like the GAVI Alliance and PATH, as well as awareness campaigns mounted by institutions like the World Health Organization, total funding toward battling malaria now exceeds $2 billion over the last decade.
And it has produced results.