Topic: Bill Gates
VIENNA (Reuters) - More than 4 million new HIV infections could be prevented in eastern and southern Africa by 2025 if male circumcision rates were increased to 80 percent, researchers said on Tuesday.Expanding circumcision services to 80 percent of adult and newborn ...
Bill Clinton and Bill Gates sounded an austere note at the world AIDS conference on Monday, rebuffing activists clamouring for leaders to throw open the funding spigot despite recession.Wading into a mounting controversy, the former US president stoutly defended Barack Obama, accused ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Bill Clinton and Bill Gates urged AIDS activists on Monday to squeeze value out of every cent of funds to fight HIV, saying they could not expect donors to give more in hard times unless it was carefully spent.Addressing ...
The global fight against HIV/AIDS is threatened by stagnating economies around the world, which have caused governments to shrink their budgets and, with them, grants to fight the illness."We are facing a major challenge in terms of funding because the global economic ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No big influxes of new money are coming to fight the AIDS pandemic, but some smarter targeting and using approaches that have been shown to work can still save lives, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said on Tuesday.Focusing ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday."A world where no children ...
Bill and Melinda Gates highlight success of US spending to save children's livesThe billionaire co-founder of Microsoft is touting what he sees as an investment with enormous returns the money spent to improve health care in poor countries and the millions of ...
Bill Gates visits World Health Organization to discuss flu, polio, AIDS workMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates is visiting the World Health Organization to discuss the agency's work on polio, AIDS and the swine flu outbreak.Spokeswoman Fadela Chaib says Gates is seeing WHO Director-General ...
What do Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Richard Gere, and 24,000 others have in common? The conference also made an active effort to include marginalized groups, including women, citizens of developing countries, gays and lesbians, sex workers, and people living with HIV and ...
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