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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Gates explores Ghana’s health progress

Source: IOL News
The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, public health
Monday, March 04, 2013 — No Region Specified

Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg: Our Plan to Eradicate Polio

Source: The Wall Street Journal
More than three decades ago, each of us started a technology company based on a big idea—and each company found success based on a culture of innovation and accountability.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, public health
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 — No Region Specified

Global Health Needs More Statistics

Source: Science Magazine
What is the best way to estimate how many people suffer from tuberculosis, from the forests of Central Africa to the highlands of Peru?
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, public health
Thursday, February 07, 2013 — No Region Specified

Global Health Funding Slows as Nations Cut Back on Donations

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Global health funding barely grew last year as the U.S. and other nations cut their donations to programs in developing nations, a study found.
TAGS:Aid agencies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, public health
Thursday, January 24, 2013 — No Region Specified

Billionaire Horse Breeder’s Polio Shot to Undercut Glaxo

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Indian billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunization and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, vaccinations
Friday, January 18, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

An inconvenient truth

Source: The Australian
LAST year, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates gave $US10 million to British scientists to crack a problem he hoped might help solve the looming world food crisis. Unusually, this time the philanthropy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was met with howls of outrage from left-leaning politicians and environmental groups that previously had welcomed its efforts to eradicate malaria and alleviate global poverty and hunger.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, farmers, nutrition
Thursday, January 17, 2013 — No Region Specified

Save the Children receives $40 million for Saving Newborn Lives program

Source: Save the Children
Save the Children is pleased to announce the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new five-year grant of $40 million to its Saving Newborn Lives program.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, NGO, Philanthropy
Monday, January 14, 2013 — No Region Specified

UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health

Source: Phys.org
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
TAGS:academia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, rural healthcare delivery, vaccinations
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 — No Region Specified

Maternal health gets a boost in Malawi

Source: Mail & Guardian
On a gray Wednesday morning in the Malawian capital of Lilonge, a group of young people perform a skit for philanthropist Melinda Gates who has come to visit their recreational centre, a drafty room with wooden, board walls and a corrugated iron roof that don't quite meet.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, Women
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

IFC Announces Partnership to Increase Access to Affordable Sanitation in East Africa

Source: WebWire
Nairobi, Kenya — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to catalyze the market for improved sanitation and accelerate access to more affordable sanitation solutions for low-income households in East Africa.
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sanitation
Monday, December 10, 2012 — No Region Specified

Gates Foundation Announces $21 Million in Global Health Grants

Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $21 million to seven projects through its Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, investment fund, Philanthropy
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 — No Region Specified

Calling All Social Entrepreneurs

Source: Forbes
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, UNDP, 92Y and Ericsson are hosting the Social Good Summit in New York City this weekend. Even if you can’t go to New York, you can participate.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conferences, social entrepreneur, social impact
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 — No Region Specified

Sure, We Can Build a Better Toilet. But Will People Use It?

Source: Wired
The Gates Foundation’s plan to build a better toilet has inspired optimism for the future of sanitation in the developing world.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, poverty alleviation, social enterprise, sustainability
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 — No Region Specified

Bill Gates Thinks About Poop - And You Should Too

Source: Forbes
On Tuesday and Wednesday, engineers, philanthropists, media and more from around the world will gather at the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle for the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair,” a $3 million project funded in grants by the Foundation that will showcase revolutionary new toilets that don’t need water, electricity or even a connection to a sewage system. The goal of the project is to help improve the lives of the 2.6 billion people in the third world who do not have access to a toilet.
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, consumer products
Monday, April 02, 2012 — No Region Specified

Infographic: 2.6 Billion People Don’t Have A Safe Way To Poop

Source: FastCo.Design
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t mince words (or pictures) when it comes to feces.
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sanitation
Monday, March 19, 2012 — No Region Specified

Jeff Raikes, CEO, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: A Message to Members of Business Fights Poverty

Source: Business Fights Poverty
We spend a lot of our time trying to convince skeptics that they should care about development. Bill Gates made the case very convincingly in his report to the G20 delivered last November. He argues from the supply side: successfully developing countries can keep the price of key commodities low by boosting production – important in ensuring food security. And he argues from the demand side: successfully developing countries can keep markets humming by boosting consumption. In the U.S., exports to developing countries are growing six times faster than exports to developed countries.
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Poverty

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