Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has invested a staggering $400 million into a scheme to test vaccines on thousands of third-world citizens.
The money, funded via the billionaire’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will pay for a phase 3 clinical trial for a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine.
The vaccination experiments will be conducted on 26,000 people at 50 sites in Africa and Southeast Asia over the next four to six years.
Gates committed $400 million to the trial and Wellcome committed an additional $150 million.