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 Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and his wife Melissa believe child deaths worldwide can be cut by almost 50% in the next 15 years—if funding from the United States continues:
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world,” Melinda Gates said in an interview last week. Particularly over the past four to five years, she said, “it’s really palpable—it’s making a huge difference saving lives.”
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They point to an AIDS program launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush that is estimated to have saved more than 1 million lives. A Bush initiative on malaria reached an estimated 32 million people last year. And the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which gets a third of its budget from the United States, helped bring 88 million bed nets treated with insecticide to children at risk of getting malaria from mosquitoes.
This Wednesday, Nov 11, Bill Gates and Matthew Bishop, author of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, will continue Bishop’s The Business of Giving series when they will discuss Gates’ pioneering career in business and philanthropy.
Upcoming lectures at 92Y
Thomas Friedman in Conversation with Dov Seidman: Dec 15
Morley Safer with Budd Mishkin: Dec 17
Governor Mario Cuomo: Lecture of My Life™: Jan 25
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