http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Neglected-Infectious-Diseases
Stamping out sleeping sickness
http://www.stampoutsleepingsickness.com/about-sos-/sleeping-sickness-and-nagana.aspx
Many diseases that affect millions of people in Africa and other developing countries have not received much research, partly because they do not affect people in developing countries.
On the site above, Bill Gates' Millenium Foundation names several "high opportunity targets" being funded including among others:
-Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
-Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
-Human papillomavirus (HPV)
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