The visit is his first to the country in four years.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said Thursday it would give $50 million to support Chinese efforts to fight malaria and tuberculosis, as the Microsoft co-founder meets with global health and development partners in Beijing.
The foundation announced it would renew collaboration with the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute — a Beijing-based group set up by Gates, the Beijing municipal government and Tsinghua University. The $50 million will support “efforts to improve health outcomes worldwide through lifesaving therapies for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, which disproportionately affect the world’s poorest”, the Gates Foundation said in a statement.
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