Bill Gates $437M health award
p2pnet.net News:- The Gates Foundation says it`ll give $437 million to 43 researchers working to resolve global health issues.
Under a program called the Grand Challenges in Global Health, the awards also include a project to develop a cheap hand-held device that could diagnose a range of illnesses, a plan to fight disease using stem cells as a lifetime vaccine, and a project to render mosquitoes incapable of transmitting disease, says the Boston Globe.
Gates called for program proposals in 2003, hoping to attract some ideas that could not get funding from the more traditional sources such as governments and pharmaceutical companies, says the Globe, adding:
The Gates foundation, which has pledged $5.6 billion for global health since 1995, bankrolled most of the $437 million in grants, with another $27.1 million from Britain’s nonprofit Wellcome Trust, and $4.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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Boston Globe – Gates Foundation delivers global health grants, June 28, 2005
June 28th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
I have read several reports with regards to the international aid given by the Gates Foundation to different parts of the world. At least the richest man in the planet is contributing with his share.
June 29th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
“At least the richest man in the planet is contributing with his share.”
lol.
His share! His share! What are the he!! are you talking about?
If he was contributing his share he wouldn’t be the richest man in the world. It is physically impossible to be both the richest man in the world and contribute your share. The two concepts are mutually exclusive. Don’t you realize that wealth and true generosity are two diametrically opposing states.
What planet do you live on?
June 29th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
I quite agree with the previous poster. $437M is LESS than one-half of a billion dollars; yet one day back in (I believe it was 1998) Mr. Gates’ fortune increased $4.5 Billion dollars in ONE DAY!!! How can anyone be fooled by this avaricious, venal, greedy crook? The man amassed his fortune at the expense of almost every single PC user in the world. If one studied closely, one could form a crystal clear image of his thought processes as he voraciously cannibalized everyone and every concept in the field of personal computers. Would you call it philanthropic when a man foists faulty products, and even faultier belief sets, on a public that is being treated so grossly unfair by the multi-billionaires who sold their souls for obscene profits? If any other company had flooded the market with such blatantly defective products, while asking the purchasers of those products to do its trouble-shooting for the company, that company would have gone the way of the Edsel or the Studebaker or BetaMax. And he did it all with a straight face!
Like a dope dealer, he handed out freebies until the consumer was inexorably hooked, then began to charge for those former freebies, then began to attach unbreakable strings to them. In 1995, I had no idea that one day Mr. Gates and the innumerable parasites fostered by his ideas would actually tell me that I would have to pay through the nose to use “his” creations. He actually wants to force a yearly licensing fee for all of his software applications, from operating systems, to web browsers, to word processing applications.
For Microsoft to remotely deserve any laudatory attention for the “generous” grants of its Foundation, it should stop dead in its tracks, reverse all of its demands for ever-increasing charges for its products, and throw the Open-Architecture door wide open — in addition to making available every cent of its billions for research and to advance progress toward easing mankind’s plight on this planet. And perhaps above all else, it should cease using its largesse to purchase the allegiance of our legislators.