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No British press coverage for a major innovation story: biotech legend Una Ryan secures funding from both the UK’s Department for International Development and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundationNo British press coverage for a major innovation story: biotech legend Una Ryan... more
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Bill Gates discusses the incredible lifesaving power of vaccines. In particular, he highlights the case of polio, which is 99 percent eradicated and within reach of being the second disease to ever be completely eliminated from the world.
Read the 2011 Annual Letter from Bill Gates at http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annualletter.Bill Gates discusses the incredible lifesaving power of vaccines. In particular, he... more
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Today Bill Gates announced his foundation will pay 10 billion dollars over the next 10 years to research of vaccines in poor countries. Yesterday, instead, he accused the Italian government because it's the only country to cut aid to developing countries.
Bob Geldof said the Italian government is trying "to improve its budget on the backs of the poor."
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/world/billgatesaiutiitalia290110.htmlToday Bill Gates announced his foundation will pay 10 billion dollars over the next 10... more
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American Friends of the Hebrew University (AFHU) have awarded Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp. and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with its first Einstein Award.The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American Friends of the Hebrew University... more
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World leaders and philanthropistshave pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria at a summit in New York.
The meeting, at the UN, is looking at ways of meeting the Millennium Development Goals - targets on reducing global poverty by the year 2015.
Donors hope the money will be enough to eradicate malaria by that time.
The money includes $1.1bn (£598m) from the World Bank and $1.6bn (£870m) from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.The British government and private organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have promised the rest.
Malaria still kills more than a million people each year, according to the World Health Organization.
The funding, will be used to support rapid implementation of the first ever Global Malaria Action Plan (Gmap).
Long-term effort
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in a statement that the extra money would help "sharply reduce the numbers of malaria-related deaths and illness" in the next three years.
According to Gmap's projections, more than 4.2 million lives can be saved between 2008 and 2015, if its plan is put into action, and the foundation can be laid for a longer-term effort to eradicate the disease.
The BBC's Heather Alexander says leaders are focusing on eradicating malaria to counter criticisms that the millennium targets will not be met. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined the presidents of Rwanda and Tanzania as well as the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reassure the world that their goal is achievable.
Alongside the offers of money came reassurance from African leaders that efforts are working.
President Paul Kagame, of Rwanda, said malaria deaths have fallen by more than 60% in his country.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to provide $168.7m (£91m) to fund a Malaria Vaccine Initiative for research on a new generation of anti-malaria vaccines.
Microsoft founder Mr Gates said: "We need innovation, new drugs, and the most dramatic thing we need is vaccine.
"If we build on this momentum, we can save million of lives and chart a long-term course for eradication of this disease."
Britain's Department for International Development pledged £40m ($73.5m) to support the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria.
It also pledged to increase its malaria research funding to at least £5m ($9.1m) a year by 2010 and supply 20 million of the 125 million bed nets still needed in affected areas. World leaders and philanthropistshave pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight... more
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The retired co-founder of computer giant Microsoft, Bill Gates, has earmarked $130,000 from his foundation to support a "smoke-free Olympics".
"Awareness of the disease burden that smoking causes is not very widespread. I'd say most people in the US know it, but in China, that's not the case," Gates, who co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said at a press conference in New York City on Wednesday.
The funds from the foundation's latest commitment are expected to go toward advertisements in an anti-smoking campaign in line with the Olympic smoking ban.
Beijing has pledged a smoke-free Games, banning smoking from most indoor public spaces, workplaces and spectator areas of open-air stadiums during the Games next month.
The anti-smoking drive is aimed at curbing a habit that reportedly affects more than 350 million people in the country. Medical costs from smoking also impoverish more than 50 million people in China, figures from the World Health Organization have showed.The retired co-founder of computer giant Microsoft, Bill Gates, has earmarked $130,000... more
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