Gates Foundation to scale potential game changer in Zika, dengue control

Donors including the Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and a coalition of governments announced Wednesday a large-scale roll-out of a promising new intervention that targets disease-carrying mosquitoes.

By // 26 October 2016

A coalition of governments and philanthropies announced Wednesday $18 million in funding to roll out the rapid scale-up of a promising new mosquito control method in Zika-hit Brazil and Colombia.

The U.K.’s Department for International Development, the United States Agency for International Development and the governments of Colombia and Brazil, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, will fund the $18 million effort. The Gates Foundation is the largest donor, with $8 million, followed by USAID, and the Wellcome Trust jointly with DfID, both offering $5 million.

If successful, the innovation will be a brand new form of vector control and potentially the most successful health intervention funded by the Gates Foundation to date.

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    Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

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