Africa: Bill Gates Talks Gene Drives, mRNA, and U.S.$40m in Science Funding

[allAfrica] Dakar -- Infectious diseases continue to be the major causes of deaths in Africa. The burden of existing, emerging and re-emerging diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, cholera, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, sleeping sickness, Ebola and SARS continues to grow - and once you move beyond mortality statistics, the huge s ocio-economic costs - care and treatment, hospital admissions, productivity loss, and disability reveals a heavy toll on the continent.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news