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Bill Gates gives Sh6bn for research, mRNA vaccines

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Member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 2, 2023. PHOTO | AFP

By  LEON LIDIGU

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced Sh6 billion ($40 million) in funding to advance access to mRNA research and vaccine manufacturing technology in the latest fight against infectious diseases including tuberculosis, malaria and Lassa fever. 

The new funding is expected to support low- and middle-income countries' capacity to develop high-quality, lifesaving vaccines.

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