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Recently, an alliance dedicated to vaccines for children in poor countries has received two staggering pledges: $750 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and $1.8 billion from Britain.
Recently, an alliance dedicated to vaccines for children in poor countries has received two staggering pledges: $750 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and $1.8 billion from Britain.
Last month, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $43 million to efforts by a California biochemist to genetically re-engineer bacteria to grow a malaria drug normally grown in six-foot-tall
Microsoft founder Bill Gates' “ultimate dream” is low-cost toilets. And to achieve this, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will host the world's best scientists and engineers in Seattle in the United
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is learnt to be planning to explore potential to assist sanitation sector. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is slated to be in Delhi this week, is likely to touch base
AVAHAN, the India AIDS initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced a grant of up to $1.5 million over five years to Washington-based Family Health International to provide
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $1.5-million grant to the Indian Network of Positive People and People Living With AIDS
Addressing a major funding gap, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will give a $50 million grant to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Separately, doctors at the XV
A group spearheaded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is warning that the push to expand access to AIDS treatment could actually fuel growth of HIV infections if treatment isn't paired with
Washington An Indian tech-firm has won a whopping grant of over USD 450,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to set up eco-friendly and hygienic "eToilets", making public conveniences more accessible to the urban poor. Thiruvananthapuram-based Eram Scientific Solutions Private Limited was awarded the grant as part of the foundation's second round of 'Reinvent the Toilet Challenge' grants totalling nearly USD 3.4 million.
Sonagachhi, Asia's largest redlight district, has become a role model for an HIV prevention programme, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in four states of the
The India AIDS initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced $47 million in new grants to support HIV intervention programmes in the high-prevalence states of Maharashtra, Tamil
Petrol pumps will soon double up as clinics to treat sexually-transmitted infections along with promoting condom use among truck drivers and their assistants. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation,
Avahan, the India AIDS initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, announced a $47 million grant to support HIV prevention programmes in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Manipur and Nagaland. In
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced Rs 216 crore in fresh grants to back HIV prevention campaigns among the Indian population's most vulnerable segments. The amount, the second
A highly successful AIDS prevention programme launched in India by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has evoked great interest in Africa where over two thirds of people with the deadly disease live.
The flagship programme undertaken by the BMC along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) received a green signal as 21 proposed public toilets received location and land clearance. However
Rich nations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said they had pledged more than 2.6 billion dollars towards family planning in developing countries at a summit in London on Wednesday. The aim of the summit was to secure new funding pledges to give an additional 120 million women and girls access to contraception by 2020. "We exceeded our target," British International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told the summit, which drew more than 150 leaders from donor and developing countries, international agencies and the private sector.
As co-chair of the foundation she started with her husband Bill, Melinda Gates is the world's leading woman philanthropist. In an exclusive interview, she tells Joeanna Rebello Fernandes how tech innovations
The fight against the Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus, which claimed hundreds of lives in Andhra Pradesh this year, has received a boost, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committing $27
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in association with the Karnataka Government, today launched the $25 million (Rs. 115 crores) programme to scale up HIV prevention in the State where an estimated