| Bill Gates, along with
his wife Melinda, visited a malaria treatment
and research centre north of the Mozambican capital Maputo.
Mr Gates said that malaria is robbing
Africa of its people and potential.
United Nations officials warn that malaria does not only
inflict terrible suffering, it's also damaging Africa's
economies.
The grant from the Bill Gates
Foundation will help
to fund the search for a vaccine as well as develop new
drugs and new preventative measures
to fight the mosquito-borne disease.
Malaria and AIDS both kill thousands of African children each
day.
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malaria treatment and research center:
a place providing care and study into malaria
robbing: taking from
potential: if something has potential
it is capable of being useful
inflict: if you inflict something
on someone, you make them suffer
grant: money given for a special purpose
Foundation: an organisation that
provides money for a special purpose
to fund: to provide money for
preventative measures: ways of
avoiding something
mosquito-borne: carried by mosquitoes
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