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In addition to guiding Microsoft's new product strategy, one of Bill Gates's chief preoccupations for the past few years has been the fight against infectious diseases in the developing world. The Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation contributed $750 million of the Vaccine Fund's $1 billion war chest, which pays for vaccines against such diseases as hepatitis, measles, and polio for 53 of the world's poorest nations. The foundation is also a major backer of the Global Alliances for Vaccines&Immunization (GAVI), which many poverty experts regard as a promising new model for managing foreign aid and coordinating the activities of governments and donor agencies. GAVI was formed in response to stagnating global immunization rates and widening disparities in vaccine access among industrialized and developing countries, a problem that results in millions of people dying each year from easily prevented infectious diseases. | ||
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| #1 By 6859 (204.71.100.218) at 10/10/2002 12:28:02 PM |
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This is one of the reasons I admire Gates. He said a long time ago that he would divest himself of large portions of his wealth to charity. Curing, or attempting to cure, any disease is noble. Indeed, it goes beyond the definition I use for noble, extending into the realm beyond.
I don't know if even his vast wealth will make the difference against HIV, Hepatitus, or even the common flu, but each penny spent in search of a cure is worth the money: even if we fail, we learn. And just perhaps, when the stars are aligned just right, one of his dollars will be "the one" that does it. And that fills me with hope. Good going, Bill. Thanks. |
| #2 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 10/10/2002 3:35:11 PM |
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Cth:
TechTV recently did a piece on TechLive where scientists found a protien found in some humans that is resistant to HIV, and they are currently working on a way to use this as a form of treatment. |
| #3 By 6859 (204.71.100.218) at 10/10/2002 4:19:08 PM |
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#4, I knew that as I saw a similar report a while ago someplace...can't remember where. The problem is, resistance to HIV is a flaky thing: you think you have it nailed down and then the bug mutates.
There are some interesting protien-based theories about as well. Heck, I even read once that it was proposed to drug treat HIV into indetection, then remove the thymus, and kill the entire immune system. Without an immune system CD4 cell to invade, and no thymus to commandeer, HIV theoretically cannot survive. Then wait a while. Once HIV is "dead" the immue system is rebuilt (kind of like the treatment that cancer patients receive, but more funky.) --I know this was totally off-topic-- Sorry. |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/10/2002 4:35:55 PM |
| um, condoms won't prevent the spread of AIDS fully. Abstinence will (well, at least it will prevent vaginally spread). |
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