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Bill Gates donates $750 mn to fight child diseases

Agencies | January 25, 2005 17:45 IST
Last Updated: January 25, 2005 18:28 IST

Bill Gates, chairman of IT behemoth Microsoft and the world's richest man, has donated $750 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) which helps fight deadly vaccine-preventable diseases among the poorest children in the world, said a report in The Guardian.

This donation is the biggest ever for Gates and also one of the largest one-time donations ever by a living philanthropist, The Guardian said on Tuesday.

Gates helped set up Gavi in 2000; and till date the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made donations to the tune of $1.5 billion to Gavi.

At the same time, the government of Norway too announced a grant of $290 million to Gavi for the stellar work the alliance is doing in helping immunise poor children the world over.

Bill and Melinda Gates also urged other governments to grant funds for this cause and meet the World Health Organisation's target of $12 billion over a decade and help more than 90 per cent of the globe's children to be immunised against deadly diseases.

Gavi is an alliance of governments, UN agencies, NGOs and other institutions.

The Guardian said that almost 27 million children are not immunised each year.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, formed in 2000, has so far committed grants to the tune of $7.5 billion to various global projects.

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well done Billy /good.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(Y)' />, ill lay off you for a while now /smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

^dito

it's really great he did that

Kill Bill, donate all his money to charity.

I do have to agree that was very nice. And wowz0rz at the amount he did donate!! lol

Its nothing out of the ordinary for his foundation to give out large donations. Allready, for this month alone, the foundation has granted $7,729,927,871 to various grant applicants, with $4,158,872,195 going to global health alone. No, theres no typo in my numbers, hes not as bad as we all like to make him out to be.

sure he is.. what kinda soul seller gives money to charity... and here i looked up to him as the anti christ:(... oh well.. guess ill have to keep taking that one up by my lonesome:P. btw he was on opera donating money and resources in the fight against AIDS.. bye!/blum.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

tis good that he's donated, I admire him a little more now, /good.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(Y)' /> BILLY

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that must be like the best photoshoot ever!

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AHAHAHAH!!

*wonders how mobes stumbled across them*

*knows where* /blum.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' /> /biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

Ha, ya they were posted on gizmodo and various other sites now i bet

Mobes looked up *microsoft porn* /blum.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

lol. They were from some teen magazine photoshoot I think. What I don't understand, is why Gates with so much money doesn't buy a gym.. that guy's scrawny as hell!