Bill Gates in Tanzania to Highlight Disease Treatments
KICHEBA, TANGA, TANZANIA - AUGUST 9: Bill Gates visiting the village of Kicheba in the Tanga region. August 9, 2017 In Kicheba, Tanzanaia. Gates went door-to-door with health workers in the village to provide medical treatment for a group of highly infectious - and highly treatable - illnesses called "neglected tropical diseases." The voluntary medication program, funded by the Gates Foundation, provides pills that help prevent lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, trachoma, and soil-transmitted helminths, which cause debilitating conditions ranging from severe disfigurements to painful swollen limbs to blindness.(Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage)

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