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Bill Gates commends India’s effective anti-polio campaign

May 18, 2013
 Expected to be the hardest, polio eradication was made possible in India thanks to social mobilisation and mapping of houses refusing the vaccine, according to Microsoft's Bill Gates. ‘The two things that were done super well …

Billionaires Gates, Slim come together to eradicate polio

April 26, 2013
Billionaires Bill Gates and Carlos Slim said that they planned to join forces to eradicate polio in six years. Gates, the founder of US tech giant Microsoft, said it was not often that you received a letter proposing to wipe out …

Bill Gates will pay $100,000 for a more pleasurable condom!

March 25, 2013
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 …

No more government hospital admission fees in Akhilesh’s UP!

August 24, 2012
The admission fee of Rs 35 has been scrapped in all government hospitals of Uttar Pradesh from Thursday, an official said. The orders in this regard were issued by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Wednesday and were to be …

New healthcare initiatives in Akhilesh’s UP

August 23, 2012
UP CM Akhilesh Yadav's all set to walk the talk about improving healthcare scenario in the state. He flagged off 200 brand new ambulances for some districts of the state.Speaking before the flagging-off ceremony, Yadav said the …

Pharmas, Gates foundation tie up to find new TB drugs

April 30, 2013
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 toilet model looks to fulfill Gates’ low-cost toilet dream

June 3, 2012
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 …

Indian government-Gates foundation seek to improve healthcare in Africa

June 1, 2012
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 …

Bill Gates lauds India’s triumph over polio

June 1, 2012
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 and Akhilesh Yadav meeting: UP and Gates foundation to tie up to improve healthcare in the state

May 31, 2012
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 …

Bill Gates to meet UP CM Akhilesh Yadav today to discuss healthcare in the state

May 30, 2012
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 …