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There are many places the Gateses could go together for an adventure. That they chose to come to India and Bangladesh to sit on concrete floors and talk about tuberculosis and diarrhea sets them apart from most globe-trotting billionaires. But their relationship with the developing world is even more complicated than that. As they tour hospitals and huts, they seem to delight in these escapades, not just because they are intellectually captivated by the scientific challenge of treating the diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when...
...beneath all those grand ambitions, there is another force at work: they get a kick out of sharing these pilgrimages as a couple--talking with transgendered sex workers in India or women who start businesses with micro loans in Bangladesh. In these situations, they prefer it if people don't know who they are. "We're just people from the moon, as far as they know," says Bill. Later, they spend hours talking about everything they've seen. Says Melinda: "That's a huge side benefit. We love doing this together...
...developing world, however, the dynamic changes. Talking to women in hovels about condom use, Bill sits with his hands in his lap, nodding robotically, while Melinda leans forward to ask questions and hold babies. On the first day of their trip, after flying all night to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from Seattle, the Gateses visited a place known as the Cholera Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys with holes...
...relations with South Asia. According to Dormandy, the attention on the region could not have come at a more crucial time. While she singled out India for sharing the U.S. government’s vision to promote peace and security, she warned that the heavily Muslim country of Bangladesh is “going downhill really fast...
...week--a rule that has provoked much grumbling abroad, where laborers often want to work more. (Swartz says that the policy is nonnegotiable and that he is not yet satisfied with the results.) In China the company has started funding skills training for women at its suppliers' plants. In Bangladesh it's working with CARE in Chittagong to provide microloans, health education and training to some 20,000 workers at one of its vendors, the YoungOne...