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Ebola Lessons Show Gates Should Widen Focus, Critics Say

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Over the past decade, aid groups such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have spent tens of billions of dollars battling deadly infectious diseases. Some public health experts want them to stop.

Such groups “are doing more damage than good; I want the world to hear it,” said Salman Rawaf, a professor at Imperial College London and an adviser to the World Health Organization.