Gates Foundation gives $83 million to fight malaria
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on  Monday pledged $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for  better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease  that kills more than a million people a year.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
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The University of Maryland scientist who co-discovered the virus that causes AIDS is receiving a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a potential vaccine, state officials announced yesterday.
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has donated $400,000 to a campaign in California trying to win approval of a measure calling for the state to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund stem-cell research.
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A memo from the World Health Organization expressed concern that the growing importance of malaria research by the Gates Foundation could stifle a diversity of views among scientists.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is  donating $750 million to pay for wider vaccination programs in  developing countries, British newspapers said on Tuesday.
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Infusions of albumin, a blood   protein, could potentially save up to 80 percent of children   who otherwise die from malaria, researchers reported on Friday.
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Britain's largest medical research charity pledges Â£4bn to investigate the world's killer diseases.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.
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The World Health Organization launched a new global effort on Monday to find a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year, and the donors to pay for it.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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A campaign to get life-saving vaccines  to millions of children in poor countries received a $1 billion  cash boost from Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and the  government of Norway on Tuesday.
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The Group of Eight wealthiest nations pledged 60 billion dollars Friday to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa and uphold an earlier promise to boost development aid.
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Charles Arntzen received a $7.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop medicine to prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique
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The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will spend $150 million (U.S.) over the next five years to help Africa's small farmers boost food production.