CAPE TOWN: Research into a vaccine for AIDS, which is devastating in parts of southern Africa, got a boost following a 100 million dollar initiative launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The money, to be disbursed in grants over five years, beginning from 2008, will promote research into diseases afflicting poor countries, like AIDS and malaria, said a statement on the Foundation's website after a meeting of global health researchers in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dubbed Grand Challenges Explorations, the initiative would seek to "encourage scientists worldwide to explore creative, unorthodox ideas", it said.
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