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  More Kids Getting Vaccines

  By Darragh Worland | Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:25 AM ET

  for the turnaround, putting financial support from the GAVI Alliance -- a partnership between WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- to good use. Bravo!"We have seen a dramatic turnaround in the availability of vaccines in even the poorest countries, Read More

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  President Obama and Bill Gates Urge Students To "Get Schooled"

  By Wynter Mitchell | Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  month, while President Obama welcomed students to their first day of school, he received support from Bill and Melinda Gates and the entertainment industry on a new initiative an Read More

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  Gates Commits $120 Million to Help Small Farmers

  By Katherine Gustafson | Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:02 PM ET

  food security for hundreds of millions of people in Africa. Photo courtesy of Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M, vi Read More

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  MicroEnsure Opens Kenyan Office

  By John Casey | Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:33 PM ET

  they face on a daily basis such as death, illness, property loss, and crop failure,” Banda said at the office's opening.In 2007, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided a grant of $24 million to support MicroEnsure’s expansion. Image courtesy o Read More

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  Giving Students a Better Chance at the AP Exams

  By Marc Hertz | Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:02 PM ET

  Science Initiative (NMSI) is looking out for the latter two groups. The initiative, a nonprofit with founding sponsors ExxonMobil, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, aims to improve math and science education in the United States. NMSI selecte Read More

  More like this in: ExxonMobil, Science, United States, Schools, Nonprofit, Virginia, Massachusetts, Dell, Connecticut, Kansas, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), Alabama
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  TB or Not to Be?

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:35 PM ET

  vaccine, called BCG, has shown disappointing results in young adults, who are the most likely to contract the disease.Photo courtesy o Read More

  More like this in: Netherlands, World Health Organization, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), Science, Social Responsibility, Healthcare, Innovation & Discovery, Giving, Fundraising
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  In Colombia, Internet for All

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:28 PM ET

  as well as software and technology training curricula from Microsoft, a Gates Foundation partner for the project. Photo courtesy o Read More

  More like this in: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Health, Technology, Education, HIV / AIDS, Colombia, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), Community Development, Computers and the Internet, Children's Health
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  Gates Helps With Measles Immunity

  By John Casey | Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:57 PM ET

  for the National Institutes of Health, which helps administer money for the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Robert Sievers, who is with Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at th Read More

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  Back to School, Celebrity Style

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  The show is the first effort in the five-year "Get Schooled" national initiative that Viacom is developing in cooperation with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the Foundation, the initiative "creates a platform for corporate and community stakeholders to address th Read More

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  Gates Funds Bold Action For Mothers And Children

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:00 PM ET

  A LOT of women and children dying from what are in many cases preventable problems. But don't despair! The good news here is that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is taking bold action to improve the situation. The Foundation is directing a five-year grant of $41 million to an Iris Read More

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