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1 September 2006
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of GBP360 000 (US$672 000) to textile researchers in the UK to develop an innovative mosquito net that is expected to provide more sustainable and economical protection from malaria than chemically treated nets used to control the disease at present.