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Gates Foundation Praises U.S. Global Health Investments, Calls For 15-Year Goal Of Cutting Child Deaths Worldwide By Nearly Half...he said, CNN reports (10/28). On NPR's Morning Edition, Bill and Melinda Gates discuss the development of an HIV vaccine and responded to some common criticisms of aid to developing countries (Inskeep, 10/28). ABC News also features an... In this article: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, United States, Melinda Gates, Asthma, Medical advice, Recession, Corticosteroid, Malaria, and HIV |
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Huffington Post | November 17, 2008
Sunil Chacko: Bill Gates Speaks in Tokyo on Vaccine Development, Building the Global Computer Industry, and Innovative Philanthropy
...for HIV/AIDS. Despite the challenges in designing a vaccine against a highly mutating organism -- the HIV virus, Bill Gates and his foundation poured hundreds of millions into vaccine design and development against HIV/AIDS. Bill Gates'...
In this article: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Chlamydia trachomatis, Malaria, GlaxoSmithKline, Trachoma, Hiv/aids, Tokyo, HIV Virus, and Japan
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Medical News Today | July 28, 2009
Gates Foundation Donates Additional $80M To Indian HIV-Prevention Program, Receives Indira Gandhi Prize For Peace, Disarmament And Development
...will give an additional $80 million to Avahan, a foundation initiative launched in 2003 for HIV prevention programs in India, Bill Gates said on Thursday, the Seattle Times blog, "Business of Giving" reports. Previous foundation...
In this article: Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, Indira Gandhi Prize, India, Visceral leishmaniasis, NACO, Times of India, and Medical advice
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New Kerala | July 21, 2009
Bill Gates to visit India this week
...organisation that he has set up. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's initiative, called 'Avahan', has invested almost $330 million in India to support efforts to reduce the spread of HIV. Gates is also scheduled to speak at a...
In this article: Bill Gates, India, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Association of Software and Services Companies, Microsoft, Punjab, West Bengal, and New Delhi
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Bill Gates ups AIDS aid to USD 338 mn in India
...had committed a total of $258 million for the purpose. 'Prevention is absolutely essential for fighting HIV, and will ultimately save millions of lives,' Gates told reporters. 'I congratulate the Indian government for its leadership on...
In this article: Bill Gates, India, Gates Foundation, AIDS, Indira Gandhi Prize, and Microsoft
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Wikipedia | June 10, 2009
The Make A Child Smile Appeal
...Gates and J.K. Rowling. The money that's raised at its events will be used by the Children With AIDS Charity's Education Department, which is both educating young people and fighting the prejudice that surrounds HIV. Excess funds will be...
In this article: The Make A Child Smile Appeal, Hiv/aids, Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling, and Britain
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | May 07, 2009
Bill Gates' multibillion pound charitable foundation criticised
Last Updated: 8:15PM BST 07 May 2009 Bill Gates' �35 billion fund has been credited with increasing the funding for research into many illnesses including HIV and malaria Photo: BLOOMBERG Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Dr...
In this article: Bill Gates, The Gates Foundation, Malaria, University College London, The Lancet, and Microsoft
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Guardian | February 14, 2009
Fashion tycoon turns environmentalist spending fortune to save the planet
...2.2m acres of wilderness for parks and reserves. As Bill Gates and Warren Buffet launched audacious philanthropic campaigns to wipe out HIV and malaria, the Tompkins have quietly poured almost $300m into reserves and ecological causes...
In this article: Doug Tompkins, Esprit, Chile, Patagonia, The North Face, Greenpeace, and Argentina
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PR Newswire: Health / Biotech | September 23, 2009
Gates Foundation Launches Campaign to Highlight Success of U.S. Global Health Investments
...Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other initiatives. In just five years, PEPFAR has helped save an estimated 1.2 million lives by expanding access to HIV prevention and treatment. "Bill and I are convinced that American funding for...
In this article: Gates Foundation, U.S., Malaria, Bill Gates, Washington, DC, Melinda Gates, Soy sauce, Insecticide, The Global Fund, and AIDS
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BusinessWeek Online | September 27, 2007
Using Spam Blockers To Target HIV, Too
...the University of Washington, and elsewhere. Since then, the 50-year-old Heckerman and two colleagues have created their own biology niche at Microsoft, where they build HIV-detecting software. These are research tools to spot infected cells...
In this article: AIDS, Microsoft, E mail, S&P, Bill Gates, and IBM
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Previous names for the virus include human T-lymphotropic virus-III (HTLV-III), lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), and AIDS-associated retrovirus (ARV).
Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells. The four major routes of transmission are unprotected sexual intercourse, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her baby at birth (Vertical transmission). Screening of blood products for HIV has largely eliminated transmission through blood transfusions or infected blood products in the developed world.
HIV primarily infects vital cells in the human immune system such as helper T cells (specifically CD4 T cells), macrophages, and dendritic cells. HIV infection leads to low levels of CD4 T cells through three main mechanisms: firstly, direct viral killing of infected cells; secondly, increased rates of apoptosis in infected cells; and thirdly, killing of infected CD4 T cells by CD8 cytotoxic lymphocytes that recognize infected cells. When CD4 T cell numbers decline below a critical level, cell-mediated immunity is lost, and the body becomes progressively more susceptible to opportunistic infections.
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