Gates gives $100 million to fight AIDS
The Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, today announcing a grant of $100 million from his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a new initiative to prevent the spread of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency
The Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, today announcing a grant of $100 million from his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a new initiative to prevent the spread of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Children's vaccination programme in Andhra Pradesh will be extended to another six districts during the visit of Microsoft founder Bill Gates to the State
Bill Gates is concerned about India's health. The software pasha, whose legendary wealth has midwifed the world's largest philanthropic fund - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $24 billion
Global AIDS meet underlines daunting task, hurdles
The $100 million commitment to fight AIDS in India, given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, should galvanise the fight against the pandemic that has been sweeping across the world. The
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private foundation, announced a grant of $28.5m towards the complete eradication of Guinea worm diseass by 2005.The announcement was made in
Deepam Educational Society for Health (DESH), a non-governmental organisation that promotes health awareness, has received a grant of one million US dolalrs from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $1m grant over two years to an initiative that seeks to promote more public-private ventures to develop drugs and vaccines for diseases in the
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Monday it will present the first annual gates award for global health to a Bangladeshi Research Centre where scientists discovered a mixture of sugar,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will present the first ever Gates Award for Global Health to the Centre for Health and Population Research, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established 40 years ago,
A new partnership backed by $70 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is offering incentives for pharmaceuticals makers to develop and distribute a vaccine for a strain of meningitis
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable endowment set up by the Microsoft founder and his wife, committed $100m to the fight against Aids and called on rich countries to pledge
When U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan appeared before leading philanthropists in April to drum up contributors to his proposed global AIDS fund, he singled out the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
Bhutan received a grant of US$ 1.00 million each from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Summit Foundation, and the Norwegian government towards the Health Trust
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is to receive $40m towards its efforts to combat malaria from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which vies with the UK's Wellcome Trust as in the
Pharmaceutical giants Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have developed two vaccines that they promise will eradicate cervical cancer. Soon after the companies announced their products in mid-2006, public
The third report of the National Family Health Survey was carried out during 2005-2006 and provides information on the population, health and nutrition in all 29 states. A total of 199,000 men and women were interviewed to collect data. The International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, carried out the survey with technical assistance from Macro International of the US. The Government of India, US Agency for International Development, Department for International Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF and the UN Population Fund provided the funds.
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