Gates Foundation out to break the cycle of disease
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Bill Gates is waging a revolution in global health. The goal: Break the developing world's cycle of sickness and poverty by eliminating the diseases that kill millions of children each year. There are early indications of success.
Gates, the world's richest man with the world's biggest philanthropic war chest at $24 billion, has made fighting disease in the developing world his top humanitarian priority.
The Seattle philanthropy spends about $800 million a year on global health -- nearly the same as the World Health Organization's annual budget and about as much as the U.S. Agency for International Development gave this year to fight AIDS and other diseases in developing countries.