Re: GLUG: Bill Gates Again

[ian strong <strong@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good show Billy boy, but then again, they are used to fighting viruses at m$.

Joseph wrote:

> December 1, 1999
> Gates donates $3m to SA for AIDS fight
>
> London (Reuters) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates has donated $3 million to
> help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among young people in South Africa, the
> International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) said on Tuesday.
>
> The three-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, announced
> on the eve of World AIDS Day, will fund centres providing family planning
> information, counselling and medical services in nine communities in South
> Africa.
>
> "Young people must be able to protect themselves from the HIV epidemic,
> unwanted pregnancy and sexual violence," Ingar Brueggemann, the director
> general of IPPF, said in a statement. "This grant will greatly help us to
> meet this challenge and the urgent needs of the future generations of South
> Africa."
>
> South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world with 1
> 600 new infections each day. Experts estimate that in five years six million
> South Africans will be HIV positive.
>
> IPPF said sexual violence is also increasing in the country where a woman is
> raped every 12 minutes.
>
> The London-based organisation added that for the first time since the start
> of the AIDS epidemic two decades ago more women than men are infected with
> HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
>
> Gates, the richest man in the United States with an estimated wealth of $65
> billion, donated $100 million last year to help vaccinate Third World
> children.
>
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