Gates, Rockefeller charities to aid African farmers
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and  the Rockefeller Foundation unveiled on Tuesday a joint $150  million pledge to fight hunger and poverty in Africa by helping  small farmers become more productive.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund  to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the  fund, which says it sorely lacks cash.
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Former US President Bill Clinton's foundation and Indian drugs companies in new deal to help HIV children.
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Microsoft's Bill Gates calls on firms to engage in creative capitalism that creates a profit while helping the poor.
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The Group of Eight wealthiest nations pledged 60 billion dollars Friday to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa and uphold an earlier promise to boost development aid.
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US billionaire George Soros donates $50m to a UN project that aims to tackle poverty and Aids in Africa.
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The United States is building a partnership with Africa to pull the continent out of poverty, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday as she lent her support to moves to boost U.S.-African trade.
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New York will play host later this year to a new edition of Farm Aid, a benefit concert to help family farms, singer Willie Nelson announced on Monday.
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The Agriculture Department plans to put more black farmers on the committees that have oversight in how federal farm subsidies are allocated.
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The World Bank's private sector arm  and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced  plans to explore private health care opportunities in Africa.
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With Africa lagging behind in  global development goals and rich countries cutting aid,  leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on  Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme  poverty on the continent.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it was giving 17.5 million dollars in grants to improve Internet access in public libraries in Botswana, Latvia and Lithuania.
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The Archbishop of York backs an appeal fund for farmers who lost crops and livestock in the deluge.
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African nations and citizens to date raise $5m to help the tens of thousands affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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More than a century ago, Western missionaries began streaming into Africa looking for souls in need of salvation. Now, conservative American priests say it's their church that needs saving.