Bono auction raises $42m for Aids
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An auction organised by U2's Bono and artist Damien Hirst raises $42.5m (Â£21.6m) towards the fight against Aids.
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Billionaire financier George Soros   pledged $50 million on Wednesday to help the United Nations   tackle extreme poverty and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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US global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias earlier this week gave developed countries a September extension to contribute US $243 million to fulfil their pledges to the Global AIDS Fund.
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The Boston Archdiocese has announced that its largest fundraiser, the Annual Catholic Appeal, raised $13.8 million last year, a 15 percent increase over 2005.  The collection topped its goal by $800,000.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily - Paris - Giorgio Armani will stage an unprecedented multi-collection runway show during London Fashion Week in a joint effort with Red, the Bono-led African AIDS initiative.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has donated  $900,000 to set up a training facility for health professionals  working with AIDS in Africa's Great Lakes region.
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Sweden has pledged more than US $2 million to the Global AIDS Fund in response to an appeal from former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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(12/13/04)âA $42.6 million grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to the Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, will create a powerful new approach to developing a more affordable
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The Vatican established a foundation Friday to fund Catholic organizations assisting AIDS victims, urging people to contribute even if they object to the Church&#39;s opposition to the use of condoms to fight the spread of the disease.
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The UN children's agency UNICEF plans to launch a major campaign to raise one billion dollars to help AIDS orphans whose numbers are expected to continue to swell until 2010, an official said.
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Twenty years on, the charity hit &quot;Do They Know It's Christmas&quot; gets back on the airwaves, with U2 frontman Bono leading a pack of fresh-faced British rockers on the same quest to raise funds for Africa.
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Three local companies are among a half-dozen winners of a multiple-award contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support a program designed to combat the spread of AIDS and provide treatment for those affected by the disease.
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The charity single We Are The World by USA For Africa, is to be re-issued to raise money for Aids research and tsunami victims.
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Dell  and Microsoft   are teaming up to release a Product Red computer, donating up  to $80 for every one sold to fund AIDS-fighting drugs in  Africa.
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The lead singer of the band U2 brought his fight against AIDS and poverty to town. Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, visited the downtown Nordstrom store Saturday to promote a designer T-shirt that will raise money to pay for AIDS medication and medical care in Africa.
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Companies teaming up with Bono's (Product) Red campaign to offer specially branded PCs, with part of the proceeds going to help fight AIDS in Africa.
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Madonna, Chris Rock and dozens of other celebrities raised $5.5 million at a star-studded benefit at the United Nations to help poor and sick children around the world.