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Governments: Norway, Sweden, France, Benin, Cambodia, Ghana and Bangladesh Multilateral agency: World Bank UN agencies: World Health Organization; UNICEF NGOs: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;
Governments: Norway, Sweden, France, Benin, Cambodia, Ghana and Bangladesh Multilateral agency: World Bank UN agencies: World Health Organization; UNICEF NGOs: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;
CUTTACK: Lack of toilet facilities could soon be a thing of the past for Cuttack slum -dwellers. To improve the sanitation condition in the slums, Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has decided to construct 32 community toilets. The Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation will provide assistance to the civic body for the project. The project will cost Rs 4.21 crore, of which the CMC will spend Rs 1.98 crore while the foundation will spend the remaining amount.
THE Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization, cofounded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will create an advocacy group to raise $3.7 billion amid reduced donor contributions following the global financial crisis. The group is expected to start operating in the first quarter of 2011 and will include human rights activists who will lobby government leaders for money, Mary Robinson, the
<p>The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) is a product development partnership (PDP) based at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Seoul, Korea, and is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the major funding agency for vaccines for dengue
<p>The Art of Saving a Life Project sponsored by Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation features the Work of Angélique Kidjo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, GMB Akash, Sophie Blackall, Thomas Ganter, Vik Muniz, Alexia Sinclair and Others, and Debuts at Critical Moment for Global Vaccine Advocacy</p>
Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical group, is stepping up the case for use of its experimental pandemic flu vaccine even ahead of a new virus mutation that could trigger a future lethal outbreak in humans. Jorg Reinhardt, head of vaccines and diagnostics, said the company would publish scientific data showing that its H5 vaccine stimulates rapid protection with a second booster jab against pandemic flu strains for at least seven years. Many specialists believe two flu injections may be necessary to provide significant protection from a pandemic, but there is far less current global capacity than supply. Reinhardt said a single flu vaccine shot would normally only offer protection after four to six weeks, but an initial jab would allow a subsequent booster to become effective within two to three days. His remarks come at a time of fierce competition between vaccine companies, which have invested significantly in pandemic flu and are attempting to recover their costs as international concern wanes. Companies including Baxter, Sanofi-Aventis and Solvay are all making arguments for the advantages of their own products, and GlaxoSmithKline raised the profile of its H5N1 vaccine last year when it agreed to donate to a "solidarity' stockpile for poor countries. World Health Organisation officials caution against labelling such products "pre-pandemic' vaccines, because they will only be effective if it is a mutation of the current H5N1 bird flu strain that triggers a pandemic. Others remain cautious about any preventative vaccination because of the cost and strain on public health systems, and concern that widespread use could trigger side effects. Reinhardt stressed it was up to the governments to decide whether or not to buy and use his vaccine. "We will share the data with everyone who is willing to listen and make the scientific argument that it provides protection,' he said. His comments came as Novartis unveiled a new Institute for Global Health at its vaccines research office in Siena, which will attempt to develop non-profit vaccines to protect against three salmonella-based infections that cause diarrhoea, one of the leading causes of disease and death in young children around the world. He said the institute, mirroring its work in Singapore to find medicines to treat illnesses for which there is no commercial market, would employ 50 scientists within three years and seek support from funds such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Institute by the end of this year.
The Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is the recipient of the 2002 Gates Award for Global Health. Rotary has been chose for its
Within days of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announcing that Andhra Pradesh would be chosen for a pilot project on an AIDS prevention programme, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set into motion the
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has chosen Andhra Pradesh as one of the centres in the country for a pilot project to prevent the spread of AIDS.
From the National Institutes of Health to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, money has begun to pour into studies on the global scourges of malaria and tuberculosis. The new funds are providing a
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $3 lakh to combat the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in
A Hepatitis-B vaccination drive will be launched in eight districts in mid-November by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is launching the programme in association with the Central
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the release of its first grant worth $67.5 million for AIDS prevention in India. The Foundation also announced a commitment of another $100 million to
The US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to render an assistance of $25 million for combating malnutritional problems in the developing countries, including India. This assistance
WORLD AIDS DAY . MTV To mark the occasion of World AIDS Day on December 1, MTV organised concerts at Cape Town, South Africa and Seattle, USA, featuring well-known performers such as Puff Diddy,
In a befitting gesture to children of AP coinciding with the children's Day today, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder Bill Gates launched the second phase of the ongoing $25 million
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International received the 2002 Gates award for global health instituted by The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation last week. The award recognised Rotary's leadership and
Microsoft Chief Bill Gates will visit India from November 11, leading a high-level delegation of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to see ongoing projects on AIDS, funded by the foundation. Bill Gates
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates donated an additional $2 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This brings the foundation's endowment, already the U.S.'s largest, to more than $23