Bill Gates gives $ 500 million for campaigns against malaria.

Former director of Microsoft told the 63rd meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New R. lunFoundation's pledge commitment to provide more than $ 500 million in 2014 to reduce the burden of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and other infectious diseasesis the leading cause of death and disability in the developing world. Gates said, adding that his fund raising finance for the fight against malaria by about 30 percent per year, and described the Ebola which has already killed 5,000 people in west Africa since the beginning of the year as "an important time in the history of health world ", and that the largest outbreaks of the world, about the need for a strong effort. The top US charities Bill Reagan announced that he donated more than $ 500 million for the fight against malaria and other infectious in the developing world, and outbreaks of Ebola was echoed calls for action. Gates Foundation's funding in September announced $ 50 million to increase efforts to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.