Gates Foundation Gives $100-Million for Anti-AIDS Gels
February 25, 2009
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has earmarked a $100-million grant to a Maryland nonprofit group that is developing sexual gels to protect women from the AIDS virus, Bloomberg reports.
The British government’s Department for International Development donated an additional $28.5-million to the International Partnership for Microbicides to pursue such treatments. Researchers recently announced encouraging results in clinical trials of gels aimed at preventing HIV infection.
The grants are the Gates Foundation’s second and the British government’s third to the microbicides project.
