September 10, 2014 – The Melinda Gate, wife of American billionaire, Bill Gate has promised to donate the sum of $50 million to West African countries currently afflicted with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). She will donate the money through her foundation, Melinda Gate Foundation.
According to the foundation, the money will be used to enable international aid organizations and national governments to purchase badly needed supplies and scale up emergency operations in affected countries.
The money will also be used to assist public and private sector partners to accelerate the development of therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics that could be effective in treating patients and preventing further transmission of the disease.
So far Ebola has killed hundreds of people in West African since it broke out in the region. It is currently afflictling many in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria.
