[Bill Gates]$10b Vaccine program[Bill Gates]

Bill Gates suggested bankers with their big bonuses should travel to places such as Africa and see what is needed for themselves.
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I wonder how much Gates gave while he was creating his empire?
 
Awesome... save 10 million kids in shitty poor countries so that in 15 years they'll have 50 million shitty poor kids of their own. Well thought out plan.
 
yeah, $1150 per shot, that sounds about right after we pass the health care bill.
 
max said:
I wonder how much Gates gave while he was creating his empire?
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Pretty sure he gave a shitton.
Wikipedia said:
Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller and in 1994 sold some of his Microsoft stock to create the William H. Gates Foundation. In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations into one to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world.[57] The foundation is set up to allow benefactors access to how its money is being spent, unlike other major charitable organizations such as the Wellcome Trust.[58][59] The generosity and extensive philanthropy of David Rockefeller has been credited as a major influence. Gates and his father have met with Rockefeller several times and have modeled their giving in part on the Rockefeller family's philanthropic focus, namely those global problems that are ignored by governments and other organizations.[60] As of 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were the second most generous philanthropists in America, having given over $28 billion to charity.
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Aids is population control for Africans.

Could dump millions on them just like Haiti, and it's not going to change a thing, because the government of that country is a dictator, and they're stuck in the stone age.
 
it's not necessarily $10b to vaccine kids from 3rd world countries, but from what i am reading a lot of it will be going into research on vaccines for different diseases, like AIDS, which would be good for everyone.
 
NoGodForMe said:
Aids is population control for Africans.

Could dump millions on them just like Haiti, and it's not going to change a thing, because the government of that country is a dictator, and they're stuck in the stone age.
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If people believe (subconsciously or not) their kids are more likely to survive, they have less of them.
 
To the classic xenophobes in the thread:

The Gates foundation spends an incredible amount of money domestically as well. It's not all going to the darkies.
 
havax said:
yeah, $1150 per shot, that sounds about right after we pass the health care bill.
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Not if they buy Brazilian:
Brazil breaks patent on HIV/AIDS drug
Luisa Massarani
8 May 2007 | EN | ES

Brazil will soon have access to cheaper generic HIV/AIDS drugs
UNESCO
Brazil has issued a compulsory licence to begin importing generic versions of a popular HIV/AIDS drug.

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree last week (4 May) issuing compulsory licensing for the HIV/AIDS drug efavirenz, made by pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. The patent for efavirenz is in force until 2012.

The announcement comes after the health ministry rejected Merck's offer on Thursday (3 May) to drop the price per pill by 30 per cent, reasoning that it is still higher than the price being offered to Thailand.

Mariangela Simão, coordinator of the National Program of Sexually Transmissible Diseases and AIDS, told news agency Agencia Estado yesterday (7 May) that they expect the first generic consignment to arrive "by the end of June or beginning of July". They will import 13.5 million units of the generic version of efavirenz.

Efavirenz is the most used HIV/AIDS drug in Brazil. According to the Health Ministry, 38 per cent of the country's HIV/AIDS patients take it, and around 75 thousand people will be taking the drug by the end of 2007.

Supplying a patient with Merck's efavirenz for one year costs Brazil US$580, about US$1.59 per pill. A generic treatment for a year would cost around US$166, around US$0.45 per pill.

Importing generic versions of the drug will save Brazil around US$30 million in 2007, and nearly US$236.8 million by 2012.
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