Gates Foundation commits $50 million for Ebola

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $50 million to support emergency efforts -- including the purchase of essential medical supplies and scale up emergency operations -- to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The amount includes $5 million going to the World Health Organization for emergency operations and R&D assessments; and $5 million going to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support efforts in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to purchase supplies, coordinate response activities and provide at-risk communities with health information.

The foundation said $2 million will go to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support incident management and treatment, and strengthen health care systems. ...