Gates Foundation gives $1.5 bln for women's health

[Ed Barrow]

Source: Reuters

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $1.5 billion on Monday in a joint push with the United Nations to improve the health of women and children, while launching a lobbying effort to get governments and other non-profit groups on board.

The program aims to cut across the "silos" of health initiatives focused on one thing -- AIDS, for example, or nutrition -- and get broader initiatives into place.

"That is in addition to grants that we already make in vaccines, diarrhea, malaria," Melinda Gates told reporters.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he would try to focus the Group of 20 meeting in Toronto later this month on the subject, adding the goal is to raise $15 billion.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65658R20100607

[mzteris]

1. OH NO!

That bastard Gates is at it again!!

He just HATES people, you know. Always donating money so he can "control and destroy"!!!! :nuke:


I wonder what his agenda is THIS time?






























just in case: :sarcasm: on my part.

[alstephenson]

4. Ha! You read my mind.

[boppers]

7. Exploiting software lock-in to become a multi-billionaire, and then giving small amounts away?

How wonderful of him! He's probably nice enough to occasionally refrain from kicking puppies!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. The Gates family was involved in womens health before he was even born

And his father was a director and legal council to planned parenthood, they are an intensely liberal family.

[joeybee12]

2. he must feel really guilty about making so much money off a shitty product...n/t

[4lbs]

3. No more than Jobs feels guilty about Apple making money off of a product that doesn't give you much

choice on your phone carrier.

I'll buy an iPhone when I can use it with the carrier of my choice, instead of being forced to use AT&T.

[joeybee12]

5. I'll agree with that...having worked for AT&T

I'll never sign up for any service of their's.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. I could be called a fan boy...

but I didn't buy an iPhone especially because it was ATT. The lock-in sucks.

[Posteritatis]

6. That.. monster! (nt)

[My Good Babushka]

8. It would be better

if Microsoft and Apple would make their products without slave labor.

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Does this mean that Bill Gates is ... COMPLEX?

I refuse to believe it. I can't handle it!

This is the Progressive Blogosphere, damn it! We simply don't DO nuance!

--d!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. But but but....Bill Gates is an ATHEIST!!! He can't do good!

:sarcasm: