The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has committed to continue supporting sanitation projects in India and make the facility affordable and accessible for people.
‘We are keen on extending support to ESS (Eram …
Not for himself of course but for the developing world! That condoms are by far one of the greatest inventions of mankind no one can deny. They remain till now the most cost-effective method of preventing pregnancies and HIV/AIDS …
Once one of the most feared diseases worldwide which was responsible for paralysing many children, polio has been contained to a large extent. There are with only three epidemic countries left in the world – Afghanistan, …
Mumbai is again grappling with drug-resistant TB. Over 25% people diagnosed with tuberculosis at a Mumbai clinic weren’t responding to the main line of treatment against the disease. Some 160 of the 566 patients who tested …
In a remarkable breakthrough that could be a major blow against meningitis in poor countries, researchers say that WHO has given the green light to a key vaccine which can be transported or stored for up to four days without …
Entomologists have discovered an unknown but potentially dangerous malaria-transmitting mosquito in western Kenya which prefers to bite people earlier in the evening, soon after sunset. Its DNA also does not match any of the …
Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions in association with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have stepped up efforts to aid research on a new drug for tuberculosis (TB), a disease that annually kills about three …
Sulabh International founder Bindeshwar Pathak Sunday said Microsoft founder Bill Gates could adopt his NGO's model to build low-cost toilets in Asia, Africa and Latin America to put an end to open defecation."Till better designs …
India has found a new gateway to project its Africa diplomacy as it explores a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is engaged in a range of activities in the emerging continent. This possibility of …
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates met Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and praised India's triumph over polio, even as the software tycoon's foundation is also helping India contain HIV/AIDS. The country has 2.5 …
Bill Gates met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and offered the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's support to help improve health services in the state. It was decided that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) shall …
American businessman and one of the world’s richest men Bill Gates will meet UP CM Akhilesh Yadav today. He is slated to reach Lucknow at 12 noon. Gates is likely to discuss a host of healthcare programmes that the Bill and …
As global fund donors pull out from India's next AIDS control programme (2012-2017), the chief of the coveted Gates Foundation-led Avahan project Wednesday said the country is capable of taking the programme ahead through …
