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Each year, more than 11 million children and 7 million adults die premature and preventable deaths due to diseases of poverty. Foundation grantmaking focuses on preventing disease, disability, and death among those living in poverty.

Boys inside the Mumbai District Drop-In Centre for Children in New Delhi, India. Boys inside the Mumbai District Drop-In Centre for Children in Mumbai, India. The Centre provides a safe place for children of the estimated 14,000 commercial sex workers in Mumbai's red light district to go after school.

African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships, Inc. (Dover, DE)
$50,000,000 for 5 years to support the Botswana Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership.

American Friends of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Inc. (London, United Kingdom)
$40,000,000 for 5 years to establish the Malaria Center.

Britain-Nepal Medical Trust (Tonbridge, Kent - United Kingdom)
$659,172 for 2.5 years to support the Tuberculosis/Leprosy Control Program in Nepal.

Carter Center, Inc., The (Atlanta, GA)
$741,000 for 3 years to reactivate the International Task Force for Disease Eradication.

Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
$4,782,000 for 2 years to support the Tak Malaria Initiative to accelerate global efforts to control the emergence and spread of resistance to antimalarial drugs.

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Santa Monica, CA)
$15,000,000 for 3 years to support Call to Action: A Global Program to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.

Family Planning Association of Pakistan (Lahore, Pakistan)
$1,377,325 for 5 years to provide high-quality family planning services in Pakistan.

Francois-Xavier Bagnoud US Foundation (New York, NY)
$300,000 for 3 years to support the HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention Program in Rural Rajasthan, India.

Funders Concerned About AIDS Inc (New York, NY)
$20,000 for 1 year for general support.

Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (New York, NY)
$25,000,000 for 5 years to support the development of new therapeutic agents.

Global Health Council, Inc. (Washington, DC)
$4,800,000 for 3 years to support the expansion of outreach and networking efforts on key global health issues.

Harvard University (Boston, MA)
$44,712,896 for 5 years to support the Partnership for Tuberculosis Control.

Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
$650,000 for 1 year to support the commission on macroeconomics and health.

Young boy in New Delhi, watches from ladder as representatives from the Children's Vaccine Program canvass his slum to administer oral polio vaccines. Young boy in New Delhi, watches from ladder as representatives from the Children's Vaccine Program canvass his slum to administer oral polio vaccines.

Health Systems Trust (Durban, South Africa)
$7,000,000 for 3 years to support LoveLife Healthy Adolescents HIV/AIDS Campaign to reduce the incidence of HIV infection among young South Africans.

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (New Delhi, India)
$100,000 for 1 year to provide a research study to the Commission for Macroeconomics in Health on the current state of health systems in India.

International HIV/AIDS Alliance (London, United Kingdom)
$5,000,000 for 5 years to support the expansion of community action on AIDS in developing countries.

International Society for Infectious Diseases (Boston, MA)
$963,138 for 2 years to support ProMED-mail, an email-based emerging disease detection and reporting system.

International Trachoma Initiative, Inc. (New York, NY)
$20,000,000 for 5 years to eliminate blinding trachoma in ten countries and to further improve the tools for fighting trachoma.

Johns Hopkins University, The (Baltimore, MD)
$20,000,000 for 5 years to establish the Gates Micronutrient Initiative to protect the health of women and children by eliminating vitamin A and related micronutrient deficiencies.

Medicines for Malaria Venture (Geneva, Switzerland)
$25,000,000 for 5 years to promote the discovery and development of antimalarial drugs.

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