Thai "Condom King" wins Gates health award
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A non-profit family-planning group founded by Thailand's "Condom King" has won the $1 million Gates Award for Global Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Tuesday.
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For the first time, scientists have proof that condoms offer women impressive protection against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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(InfoWorld) - The chairman of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from AppleÂ iPods to Nintendo's Wii game console, pledged NT$15 billion (US$454.4 million) to Taiwan's most prestigious university to build a new cancer ward and fund research against the disease. Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., which operates under the trade name Foxconn, signed a memorandum of understanding with the president of National Taiwan University on Tuesday in Taipei, a spokesman at his company said. The majority of the donation, NT$10 billion, will go towards building a 500-bed clinic for cancer patients, while the remainder has been earmarked for cancer-related biomedical research at the National Taiwan University Hospital. Cancer is a personal issue for Gou. His wife died of complications related to breast cancer two years ago, and his younger brother passed away from leukemia at a hospital in China this past July. In giving the gift, the Taiwanese mogul joins other major technology industry philanthropists on a growing chorus of giving. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, for example, has pledged much of his multi-billion dollar fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, CEO Steve Ballmer, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, and OracleÂ founder and CEO Larry Ellison have all graced the pages of Forbes Magazine's list of top philanthropists.
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San Francisco AIDS researcher Dr. Joseph &quot;Mike&quot; McCune was named Wednesday as one of nine winners of $2.5 million grants from the National Institutes of Health to carry out innovative medical research.
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The University of Maryland scientist who co-discovered the virus that causes AIDS is receiving a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a potential vaccine, state officials announced yesterday.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $41 million contract to Sanofi Aventis Inc. for flu vaccines. Health Secretary Tommy Thompson said part of the contract was to ensure there are
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p2pnet.net OT News:- The OneWorld Health drug company is now $42.6 better off, thanks to a grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae issued a blunt message to his people Wednesday on HIV/AIDS: abstain from unsafe sex or die. Botswana, which has one of the highest rates of HIV infection
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Southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province has registered marked progress in HIV/AIDS prevention since it carried out six programs earlier this year to fight the deadly disease.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.
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NAIROBI: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, yesterday reiterated her claim that the Aids virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
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Spain's Conference of Catholic Bishops chief spokesman said condoms "have their place in a comprehensive and global prevention of AIDS."
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A system linking the some of the globe's best doctors with the developing world is saving lives.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore is unlikely to go the way of Thailand in the fight against AIDS, at least where public education campaigns promoting condom use are concerned.
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India, struggling to promote greater condom use among its population, is looking to hire its own "condom man" to follow the example of a former Thai cabinet minister who successfully pushed for safer sex, the Times of India reported.
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The key genes which lead the body's fight against HIV infection have been pinpointed by scientists.
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A therapeutic vaccine found to significantly strengthen the immune system against HIV infection as a complement to the protease-inhibitor AIDS &quot;cocktail&quot; has been developed by a research team at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem&#39;s Ein Kerem