Word: melinda
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...MELINDA: It was clear to us that we didn't want to leave it to our kids. When we started to look at where the largest inequities [are], global health really stood out, because by every measure, if you can improve people's lives through health, you improve all measures of society...
...former director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), who is currently under congressional investigation regarding a 2002 NCI grant to Harvard, said last week that he will step down from his current position as head of the Global Health program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
...described India's growing AIDS crisis [June 6]. But the AIDS epidemic is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution. It is not only the responsibility of nations in which AIDS is most prevalent or of philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation is assisting India. It is also the responsibility of every government and person on the planet. It is a problem that cannot be ignored. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to eliminate AIDS and the larger the number of people who will die before their time. We have the money...
...Taipei India's War on AIDS You described India's growing AIDS crisis [June 6]. But the AIDS epidemic is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution. It is not only the responsibility of nations where AIDS is most prevalent or of philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation is assisting India, but it is also the responsibility of every government and person on the planet. It is a problem that cannot be ignored. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to eliminate AIDS and the larger the number of people who will die before...
...Springs Gazette. They gained traction thanks to a July 2004 memo by a Yale Divinity School team that advised academy chaplains on rape counseling but made note of "stridently evangelical themes" in Protestant services and warned that this could "encourage religious divisions." The letter was co-signed by Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran chaplain at the academy. She has been reassigned to Okinawa--punishment, she claims, for speaking out, although the Air Force denies it. She has questioned the influence on the school of the many powerful Christian groups headquartered in Colorado Springs, sometimes called "Evangelical mecca." Some groups...