News Type: Press Release

India contacts:Sharad Goswami, for the India AIDS InitiativePhone: +91 124 5061812/13 (office),+91 98103 56688 (mobile)Email: [email protected] U.S. contact:Patti PiersonBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400 NEW DELHI — The board of the…

Jacquelline FullerBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela today called for a new social revolution to turn back AIDS in South Africa. The remarks came…

Jacquelline FullerBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] MANHIÇA, MOZAMBIQUE – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced three grants totaling $168 million to fight malaria – a disease…

New prevention strategies: $28 million for research on intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) New drugs: $40 million to the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) Vaccines: $100 million to the…

Edward Skyler / Robert LawsonMayor’s OfficePhone: 212.788.2958 Susan ByrnesBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400 NEW YORK — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the New York City Department of…

Contact:Marie GroarkBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SAN FRANCISCO — The national office of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) announced today that it will receive an $18.7 million grant…

Scott HalsteadInterim DirectorPediatric Dengue Vaccine InitiativeInternational Vaccine InstitutePhone: 240.463.2930Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — To accelerate the development of a vaccine to prevent dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, debilitating diseases affecting children in…

Amanda WherryPress Office, Governor Mike EasleyPhone: 919.733.5612Email: [email protected] RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Mike Easley today announced an $11 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create high schools…

Susan Krieger, Director of CommunicationsGrand Rapids Public SchoolsPhone:  616.771.2149 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Schools today announced a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help…

Alice BishopCouncil on Library and Information ResourcesPhone: 202.939.4763 Mymoena Ismail City of Cape Town Smart Cape OfficePhone: 27.21.400.2030 BERLIN — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today presented the Smart Cape…