--- title: Malaria: Bill Gates, Foundation Boost Budget Against Disease by 30% description: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will ramp up its annual funding for malaria to more than $200 million per year canonical: https://time.com/3554564/gates-foundation-malaria/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-03T19:04:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:10:59.528Z article:section: Health og:title: Bill Gates Thinks Malaria Can Be Eradicated in His Lifetime og:description: Gates Foundation boosts budget for malaria program by 30% og:url: https://time.com/3554564/gates-foundation-malaria/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Gates Thinks Malaria Can Be Eradicated in His Lifetime twitter:description: Gates Foundation boosts budget for malaria program by 30% twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bill Gates Thinks Malaria Can Be Eradicated in His Lifetime by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 3, 2014 7:04 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 3, 2014 7:04 PM UTC Bill Gates [announced](http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2014/11/ASTMH-Address) Sunday that his foundation would ramp up funding for its malaria program by about one-third, to more than $200 million per year, and detailed how the disease can be beat in his lifetime. Gates made the announcement — alongside a larger commitment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of more than $500 million toward tackling the burden of infectious diseases in developing countries — at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which has long focused on an effective vaccine for malaria, estimated to kill more than 600,000 people worldwide every year. “Some people said then (and still say today) that we’re overly optimistic to be talking about eradication. After all, malaria is an enormously complex target and has defeated efforts to stamp it out in the past,” he [wrote in a corresponding blog post](http://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Eradicating-Malaria-in-a-Generation). “They’re right that we shouldn’t promise the moon—you don’t get rid of a disease this complex overnight—but I am confident that the future will be different from the past.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3554564/gates-foundation-malaria/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3554564/gates-foundation-malaria/"},"headline":"Bill Gates Thinks Malaria Can Be Eradicated in His Lifetime","datePublished":"2014-11-03T19:04:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:10:59.528Z","description":"Gates Foundation boosts budget for malaria program by 30%","url":"https://time.com/3554564/gates-foundation-malaria/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","Malaria","mosquitos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3554564/gates-foundation-malaria/","name":"Bill Gates Thinks Malaria Can Be Eradicated in His Lifetime"}}]}] ```