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...website, its founder, George W. Merck, once said: "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.") So, in 2000, Merck and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put $50 million each into setting up the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) to support Botswana's efforts to fight the disease, with Merck also committing to supplying ACHAP with free drugs. The program ran for four years, and has now been extended until 2009 with a further total...
...Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been deeply engaged, both with funding and through the no-nonsense leadership of its program director, Jim Shelton. Other philanthropic supporters of the school-reform movement, most notably Eli Broad and Don Fisher, are poised to become much more involved now that it has become clear, with the surge of school entrepreneurs and the appointment of Vallas, that New Orleans will be the nation's most visible test of the charter-school movement. Tulane University, a driving force in the renewal of New Orleans, has created an Institute for Public Education Initiatives to serve...
...about his admiration for Steve Jobs' taste that finally broke the ice. Gates appears to be more sympathetic and quite different from my earlier impression. I won't dare criticize him for being wealthy, as I hope he succeeds in curing a lot of inequities with his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates 3.0 is entirely commendable and should be a model for many other celebrities. Sebastian Kiesel, Augsburg, Germany...
...about his admiration for Steve Jobs' taste that finally broke the ice. Gates appears to be more sympathetic and quite different from my earlier impression. I won't dare criticize him for being wealthy, as I hope he succeeds in curing a lot of inequities with his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates 3.0 is entirely commendable and should be a model for many other celebrities. Sebastian Kiesel, AUGSBURG, GERMANY...
India has far fewer HIV/AIDS cases than previously thought, if a new and comprehensive national health survey is to be believed. The survey, which was partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and which has not yet been released, suggests that the total number of Indians infected by the virus is far lower than the 5.7 million people estimated in previous studies. The New York Times, which first reported the findings, said that early analysis of the data puts the the total number of people infected at somewhere between 2 and 3 million...