Nov 22, 2013 20:00:00

Bill Gates Foundation embarks on manufacturing next-generation condoms and mounting aids

By

Peter Rivera

Grand Challenges Explorations, one of the programs run by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity founded by Microsoft President Bill Gates with his wife Melinda, is looking for bold and out-of-the-box ideas from around the world. However, the project that was adopted will be given a research fund of 100,000 dollars a year. Two project teams working on 'development of next-generation condom' announced in March 2013 as one of the projects of Grand Challenges Explorations will be announced and officially invested 100,000 dollars (about 10.12 million yen) Has been decided.

Gates Foundation Awards Grants to Test Ideas Ranging from using Big Data for Social Good to Inventing the Next Generation of Condoms --Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2013/11/gates-foundation-awards-grants-to-test-ideas

Grants Awarded
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/GrantsAwarded.aspx

The Bill Gates Foundation has decided to invest in a product in the UK that believes new ideas are needed to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases and to create condoms that men and women can use constantly in the right way. The team at the design consulting firm Cambridge Design Partnership , led by Benjamin Strutt, and the South American company Willem van Rensburg of Kimbranox Ltd.

Benjamin Strutt's project team will develop a gentle-tightened men's condom that uses materials that can be adapted to any size and enhances sensitivity and durability during use.

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Meanwhile, Willem van Rensburg of Kimbranox Ltd will use a grant to test the condom applicator 'Rapidom ', which helps men's condoms to be worn easily and without special techniques. In addition, a condom applicator test that can be attached to a condom with a single operation and minimizes the interference that occurs when the condom is attached will also be conducted.

In addition to 'next-generation condoms' and 'condom-wearing aids,' the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has 'simplified sharing of research data,' 'improved productivity of female farmers in Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa,' and 'tropical.' We have decided to invest 100,000 dollars (about 10.12 million yen) in each of 81 projects working on 'disease control'.