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Bill Gates' billions to help poor and fight malaria
DRESSED in a pair of baggy trousers, the world's richest man looked out of place sitting on the floor of the Manhica research centre, 80km north of Maputo, among some of the world's poorest people.
Surrounded by impoverished mothers and infants sickened by malaria, Bill Gates yesterday gave $168m for research into malaria, the largest-ever gift by a single individual to combat the killer disease.
Most of the money will go towards accelerating research into 15 possible vaccines, widely regarded as the silver bullet of anti-malaria research.
But for Mr Gates, the Microsoft tycoon whose sprawling software empire brought him a personal fortune of $43bn, this gesture is simply part of a greater goal. America's richest man has declared that before his death he will give it all away to improve the health of the four billion people living on less than a dollar a day.
Following in the footsteps of the great 19th-century philanthropists, John Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, Mr Gates and his wife, Melinda, have set themselves the goal of bridging the health gap between the First World and the Third World.
This has left children in poor countries 10 times more likely to die from illness than their counterparts in the developed world. Endowed with $25bn, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is now the largest charitable trust in the world.
It was set up in 1996 after the birth of their first child. (© The Times, London)
Michael Dynes
in Maputo
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=30&si=1050210&issue_id=9819
DRESSED in a pair of baggy trousers, the world's richest man looked out of place sitting on the floor of the Manhica research centre, 80km north of Maputo, among some of the world's poorest people.
Surrounded by impoverished mothers and infants sickened by malaria, Bill Gates yesterday gave $168m for research into malaria, the largest-ever gift by a single individual to combat the killer disease.
Most of the money will go towards accelerating research into 15 possible vaccines, widely regarded as the silver bullet of anti-malaria research.
But for Mr Gates, the Microsoft tycoon whose sprawling software empire brought him a personal fortune of $43bn, this gesture is simply part of a greater goal. America's richest man has declared that before his death he will give it all away to improve the health of the four billion people living on less than a dollar a day.
Following in the footsteps of the great 19th-century philanthropists, John Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, Mr Gates and his wife, Melinda, have set themselves the goal of bridging the health gap between the First World and the Third World.
This has left children in poor countries 10 times more likely to die from illness than their counterparts in the developed world. Endowed with $25bn, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is now the largest charitable trust in the world.
It was set up in 1996 after the birth of their first child. (© The Times, London)
Michael Dynes
in Maputo
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=30&si=1050210&issue_id=9819
