Bill Melinda Gates Foundation

Population Council, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation supports clinical trials of Population Council s lead candidate AIDS-fighting microbicide [press release]. Available at http //biz.yahoo.com/020202/22000 l.html. Accessed April 2002, February 2, 2002. 

Steven B. Buchsbaum is currently a senior program officer in the Global Health Technologies program at the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. His areas of focus... 

Steven B. Buchsbaum, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Sheldon K. Friedlander (deceased), University of California, Los Angeles Murray Hamlet, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Kingston, Massachusetts... 

The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation is the world s largest private philanthropic organization (http / www.gatesfoundation.org last... 

Private philanthropy occupies an important place in the past and present of global health. For example, the Rockefeller Foundation has made significant contributions to public health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made major investments in this regard over the past 15 years. While these contributions are welcome, they cannot and will not form the basis of concerted global public sector action to control an entire class of infectious diseases. Private philanthropy is, by definition, not accountable to the public in the way that action undertaken by the public sector is. It is neither fully transparent nor predictable, nor is it subject to the checks and balances that come from engaging in multilateral cooperation involving national health authorities that are accountable to their citizens. 

CDD has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) which has enabled them to build strong relationships with the TB pilot labs and also build the Collaborative Drug Discovery Tuberculosis Database (CDD TB DB, accessed at http //www.collaborativedrug.com/register). We have also... 

The CDD TB database is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant 49852 Collaborative drug discovery for TB through a novel database of SAR data optimized to promote data archiving and sharing ). 

Private and public funding of foundations such as the Global Alliance ifcr Vaccines and Immunization (QS), suppoted by the Bill Melinda Gates... 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/ InfectiousDiseases/)... 

In the United States, the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health offer grants for parasitological research. In 2006, the National Institutes of Health awarded Yale University researchers 5.4 million to study cutaneous leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease spread by female sand flies. A variety of private organizations also support parasitology research. In 2009, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a series of seventy-six 100,000 grants aimed at combating some of the m or issues in society, at least one of which was slated for research into malaria prevention. 

The African Union Commission (AUC), Pan African Parliament (PAP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank (WB), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAl) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)... 

BMGF and BCG. Market Assessment for Public Health Pesticide Products, Seattle, Washington Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Boston Consulting Group, 2007. 

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