Gates Foundation Donates Millions To Malaria Research
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The search to find an effective drug to fight malaria received a huge financial boost today with a donation of $42.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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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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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique
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Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation has contributed nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, said Sunday that the search for HIV prevention drugs could be the "next big breakthrough" in combating the disease.
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There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This is what they have found: In a group of one thousand six hundred
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The head of the Gates Foundation's Infectious Disease Programs explains the group's investment process
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The Canadian government and Bill Gates announced an initiative Tuesday to establish a research institute to develop an AIDS vaccine, committing a total of $119 million to the project. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government has pledged $95.3 million to a new fund called the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has promised up to $24 million.
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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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(InfoWorld) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced a new $328 million plan to provide computer and Internet services through public libraries in developing nations. Botswana, Latvia, and Lithuania won the first round of grants, a total of $17.5 million, the foundation said in a statement. Over the next seven years, theÂ Gates Foundation expects to investÂ the remainder of the fund in 12 to 15 countries. The grants are aimed at creating opportunities for people in the developing world to access the Internet. A portion of the funds will be set aside for IT training programs. The initiative comes amid heightened sensitivity to the need to bridge the digital divide in developing nations. A number of companies and groups are working to provide low-cost IT products and Internet access to poor areas of the world, including theÂ One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) GroupÂ led by Nicholas Negroponte, a cofounder of the MIT Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Via Technologies, which isÂ building solar-powered computer centers, and Intel, which hasÂ pledged $1 billionÂ over five years for computers and Internet access. The latest notebook reference design is aimed at Taiwan, which is an emerging but by no means poor economy. The device is orange, comes with an attached shoulder strap and is meant for school-age children. Citing statistics that say 87 percent of the worldâs population, or five billion people, have no access to the Internet, the foundation pledged to help solve this inequity. "The vast majority live in developing countries, which means that those with the greatest need often do not have the opportunity to access valuable health, education, and government information that can improve their lives," the foundation said in a statement. The foundation worked with the government of Botswana to develop a pilot plan to connect five villages to the Internet and put computers in public libraries or reading rooms. The goal is to develop the test sites to make sure they are both useful to the public and show staying power over the long term. The foundation invested $1.1 million to fund the initial round of the project. In Latvia, the Gates Foundation provided $16.2 million for broadband Internet connections and Wi-Fi networks in libraries across the country. Each library will also receive three computers and IT training for their staff. The government of Latvia and Microsoft Latvia also committed funds and software to the project. Lithuania received a $220,396 grant to help plan a national effort to provide Internet access in public libraries throughout the country for free. The foundation will grant additional funds to the effort once planning is completed. The foundation cited past successes for its faith in the global Internet initiative. In 2001, the foundation worked with the government of Chile to put Internet access and computers in all of the country's 368 public libraries. Another effort in Mexico placed computers in about a third of the country's 8,000 libraries. Â ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed &#36;400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic stem cell research and cloning projects in the state, according to campaign records.
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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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Microsoft magnate Bill Gates gives $750m to a vaccine fund he says will save millions of children's lives.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday pledged $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease that kills more than a million people a year.
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Â£5m is being given to a charity that will fund research and educational initiatives dedicated to the net.
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A memo at the World Health Organization expressed concern that the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation could stifle a diversity of views among scientists.
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Hundreds of millions in federal funds are authorized for research and early intervention.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Norway yesterday pledged more than $1 billion to vaccinate millions of children against diseases that often kill, but are easily preventable.