Bill and Melinda Gates are expected to ask Washington officials on Tuesday to "continue funding global health initiatives despite the recession and to commit to nearly halve the number of child deaths worldwide by 2025," thereports. At a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation event in Washington, D.C., Bill Gates will address "members of Congress, the U.S. globalcoordinators, the health policy counselor for...
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Around Rs 11,088 crore are being circulated via chit fund schemes in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Around 58 million house holds have participated in chit fund schemes, according to a recent study released by Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR). The study was funded by Bill Gates foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation....
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Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Gates Foundation's global health program, highlights pregnancy-related deaths.New strategies would cut pregnancy-related deaths, Gates Foundation official says-- Global philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are launching a major push to convince the United States to maintain government spending on worldwide health initiatives, despite the financial crisis and a soaring...
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President Barack Obama has named Rajiv J. Shah, an Indian American scientist managing a programme at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help the world's poor lead healthy and productive lives, to a key post. Obama intends to nominate Shah as under secretary for research, education and economics in the department of agriculture, the White House announced on Friday. Shah is currently the director...
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Three-Year Grant From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announced By Keystone SymposiaKeystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund conferences on infectious disease in its "Keystone Symposia Global Health Series." In 2006, the Colorado, USA-based nonprofit organization received its first...
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Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, praised former President George W. Bush for the enactment of PEPFAR and commended the Obama administration's commitment to global health issues and for "being very open minded [and] saying we don't have to go back and reinvent the wheel.""Gates said that Congress and the administration should continue to provide large amounts of funding...
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Pittsburgh school board tonight voted 8-0 to accept a $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The money will help the district launch a five-year $85 million-plus campaign to change the way the district recruits, trains, compensates and recognizes teachers.Pittsburgh's plan is one of four nationwide to receive major funding from the Gates Foundation. The foundation will discuss...
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Also In Global Health News: HIV/AIDS Grants; Africa's Water Resources; Sex Workers In MalawiHIV/AIDS program grants made by U.S.-based foundations totaled $618 billion in 2008, an 11 percent increase from the previous year, according toreports. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation accounted for the majority of the grants, and when it was "excluded, foundation giving [for HIV/AIDS] actually declined...
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HIV/AIDS program grants made by U.S.-based foundations totaled $618 billion in 2008, an 11 percent increase from the previous year, according toreports. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation accounted for the majority of the grants, and when it was "excluded, foundation giving [for HIV/AIDS] actually declined 3 percent compared to 2007." According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, "the coalition is urging...
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Around Rs 11,088 crore are being circulated via chit fund schemes in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Around 58 million house holds have participated in chit fund schemes, according to a recent study released by Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR). The study was funded by Bill Gates foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Speaking to reporters in...
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