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...becoming clear that as effective as AIDS treatments are, any gains they provide will only be erased if new infections are not prevented. This year, for the first time, prevention options that extended beyond education and behavioral modification approaches finally took center stage, literally, when Bill and Melinda Gates and former President Bill Clinton all highlighted new prevention techniques in the opening days of the conference. These include the development of microbicides, oral drugs to prevent HIV infection, and even male circumcision. There still isn't enough evidence yet that proves any of these strategies can actually halt the spread...
...getting researchers at the 16th International AIDS conference excited at the prospect that the potent medicines might be exploited to perform double duty. Why not use the power of these ARVs to prevent an HIV transmission or infection from taking hold in the first place? Bill and Melinda Gates asked that provocative question on the opening day of the conference, and are committing their considerable financial resources toward finding an answer. In their remarks, they highlighted the need to develop microbicides and oral prevention drugs while we wait for a vaccine. And they will get their first hint...
Like many other African countries battling AIDS, Uganda is struggling to make the most of a sudden influx of dollars from First World donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose disease-fighting war chest just doubled in size, thanks to a $30 billion endowment from financier Warren Buffett. Uganda is planning to use its money to provide ARVs to every Ugandan who needs them, but the flood of money for medical care is running into a roadblock common in almost every Third World country: an infrastructure incapable of delivering it. In Uganda, for example, there is only...
...donations and pledges made by Warren Buffett--and Bill and Melinda Gates, who have given nearly $26 billion to their foundation so far--eclipse those of other great U.S. philanthropists...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the year it's given; the $1.5 billion pledge for 2006 will double the foundation's current spending--and boost its already powerful impact...