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GENEVA — In Geneva this Friday, a broad range of stakeholders will formally launch the new Strategic Plan 2010-2012 for eradicating wild poliovirus. Across Africa, 10 of the 15 previously…

GENEVA — Groupe Haïtien d’Étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infectieuses Opportunistes (GHESKIO) has won the Gates Award for Global Health, and will receive $1 million in prize money.…

México, D.F. — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Health Institute of the Carlos Slim Foundation, the Government of Spain, and the Inter-American Development Bank have agreed to collaborate…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced a $10 million incentive…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Melinda Gates today urged global leaders to make women’s and children’s health a top priority, and announced that the Gates…

NEW YORK — To help the millions of poor people worldwide who lack a safe way to save money, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has launched a novel initiative that will work…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] BARCELONA, Spain — At a press briefing in Barcelona today, Bill Gates praised European leadership for delivering real progress and measurable outcomes in…

SUWANEE, Ga. — Today, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a set of state-led education standards,…

LONDON — The GSMA announced the details of a further seven grantees from the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Fund, which is administered by the GSMA Foundation, Inc., with…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Marguerite Roza, Ph.D., has joined the foundation as a senior data and…