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Jenny SorensenBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] WASHINGTON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) will receive the $1 million…

Mary WilliamsGates Millennium ScholarsPhone: 703.205.2041 FAIRFAX, Va. – The fifth class of Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) was announced today. With these scholarships, 1,000 highly motivated low-income minority students from 46…

Janine Iamunno    MTV Communications   Phone: 212.846.6992   NEW YORK — MTV: Music Television and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a new joint effort aimed at raising young people’s…

Preeti Singh or Joe Sutherland for PATH1.301.652.1558 GENEVA — A major partnership was launched today to demonstrate the enormous potential to save lives with existing malaria control interventions and identify specific…

Celeste GarrettChicago Public Schools773.553.1620 Mayor’s Press Office312.744.3334 CHICAGO —  Mayor Richard M. Daley, joined by a coalition of education organizations, today announced grants of more than $11 million from the…

Christine McNabWorld Health OrganizationPhone: + 41.79.254.6815 GENEVA — A new global partnership that will work to improve public health decision-making through better health information was launched today at the World Health…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] GENEVA — In a major address today to international health officials, Bill Gates said the world now has a “historic chance” to achieve dramatic…

Andrew ShihThe Corkery GroupPhone: 212.584.5012 Hopes among more than three million people in Sudan were raised with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord, created to end Africa ‘s longest-running…

Deb HammacherAssociate Director, University Media RelationsPhone: 404-727-0644  Emory University’s Institute of Human Rights has received a $230,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support its international conference…

Angie CecilThe Halo ProjectPhone: 516.455.7441 SAN FRANCISCO — The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S., today announced that it has received a grant of nearly US$10…