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Bill, Melinda Gates Donate $10 Billion


Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight against a number of illnesses including AIDS, the largest financial commitment their charitable foundation has made.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they said the 10-year program will focus on vaccines for AIDS, tuberculosis, rota virus and pneumonia.

Since stepping down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in mid-2008, Bill Gates has devoted most of his time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic organization he set up with his wife Melinda. He remains part-time chairman of the software giant.

The foundation directs most of its attention to global health, education and agriculture in the third world and has committed more than $21 billion since it was established in 1994.

“We must make this the decade of vaccines,” said Bill Gates.

“Vaccines are a miracle,” added Melinda Gates. “With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our priority at the Gates Foundation because we’ve seen firsthand their incredible impact on children’s lives.”

The couple said their pledge was inspired by the remarkable progress made on vaccines in recent years.

(Source: CNN)



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  1. He would have done much better of he had put that 10 billion into Fusion research.

    Once we have sustainable energy from fusion, everyone will benifit all over the world far fatser and far more then from AIDS research which already has many tens of billions being poured into it.

    It’s nice that he donated such money to any charitable cause, but he chose something he klnew ould get him praise and kudos from the leftwing Hollywood crowd.
    Only H-sh-m can read his mind, but it does not ‘look’ to me, like he necessarily really thinks this is the best possible thing to support, with his money as opposed to be looking for praise from the politically correct elites, in the world.

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