Gates gives $500 million to Global AIDS, TB fund
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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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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed $400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic
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WASHINGTON -- The board overseeing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has narrowed the choice for its new executive director to three candidates -- two European global health specialists and an African physician who has quickly established a system of AIDS treatment centers in Uganda, officials confirmed yesterday.
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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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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is donating &#36;750 million to pay for wider vaccination programs in developing countries, British newspapers said on Tuesday.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will team with the Rockefeller Foundation to increase agricultural productivity in Africa.
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The United States will set aside  $120 million for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis  and Malaria to give European donors time to come up with a  bigger share for 2004, the U.S. AIDS czar said on Wednesday.
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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 Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday that four grants totaling more than $68.2 million would go to fight three tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people each year in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is &quot;We believe that the world&#39;s toughest problems can be solved - if we work together&quot; - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that&#39;s wreaked such havoc in South Asia.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by...
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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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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $105 million to the University of Washington to open a new research center to assess the performance of global health programs.
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World donors pledged $500 million in aid for Palestinians on Friday, including $55 million for a U.N. emergency appeal for humanitarian help, organizers said.
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About 1.2 million people in countries hard hit by AIDS are receiving life-extending drugs thanks to two major U.S. and international funds, double from a year ago, but many millions more need help, the funds said on Friday.
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Microsoft&#160;has joined with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other development organizations to attack AIDS and other humanitarian problems worldwide, the company announced Monday.Microsoft will offer a wide variety of assistance to USAID as well as the U.S President&#39;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, two other humanitarian aid organizations, Microsoft said.The assistance could include technology consulting and software development support for agencies on the ground in developing nations and other types of help, said Frank McCosker, Microsoft&#39;s senior director of global strategic accounts.Microsoft has worked in an ad hoc basis with USAID in the past, but this 5-year partnership will give the aid organizations a &quot;faster pipeline&quot; to Microsoft resources, said Corey Griffin, Microsoft&#39;s director of international development. The memorandum of understanding announced Monday pulls together Microsoft and the three development organizations in a more comprehensive approach that in the past, he said.The company plans to work with the aid organizations on a variety of projects, including AIDS, other health problems, education, and economic growth, Microsoft said. The company is looking at creating so-called &quot;innovation centers&quot; in developing nations, where users can learn to create jobs in their countries, Griffin said.Microsoft will also work on disaster response and environmental sustainability, the company said.&quot;In this age of increasing interconnectedness, this global collaboration with Microsoft will help to mobilize ideas and resources, skills and technologies to spur innovation and deliver results far more efficiently and effectively than ever before,&quot; Henrietta Fore, acting administrator of USAID, said in a statement.The first project under this memorandum of understanding will be an alliance between Microsoft, USAID and Indonesia Entrepreneurship And Agribusiness Development Activity. The alliance partners will sponsor a national business innovation competition and awards program focused on improving innovation and IT competitiveness in Indonesia.The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization set up by Microsoft&#39;s founder and his wife, has long given money to programs targeted at improving health and education around the world. But other than inspiration, Microsoft gets no marching orders from the foundation to work on health and education programs, McCosker said.The deal is a commercial one, he said. &quot;It&#39;s about getting access to the next 5 billion users,&quot; he added.Microsoft plans to announce more projects in the partnership in the next six weeks.