5 cool Gates Foundation projects you probably haven’t heard of

The problem: Vitamin A deficiency is a global public health issue affecting millions of children and pregnant women.

A solution: Golden Rice is a type of genetically modified food containing beta carotene, a source of vitamin A. The project is still under development and evaluation.

Why it's cool: If golden rice provides the nutrition scientists believe it will, it could reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency. According to the foundation, it could prevent hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness each year.

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