The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsors a Global Health Program that uses science and technology to save people living in poverty in developing countries. It focuses on major health problems and supports improving delivery of proven tools, while investing in research for new interventions like vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. The foundation was formed in 1994 and funds areas like global health, global development, and US programs, with a focus on developing solutions for infectious diseases, family planning, nutrition, and more. It seeks input from experts and works through grants to partners.

2. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
It sponsors a Global Health Program that uses
science and technology to save people living in
poverty. They focus on the health problems that
have a major impact in developing countries.
Where proven tools exist, they support sustainable
ways to improve their delivery, and where they
don't, they invest in research and development of
new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and
diagnostics.
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3. Belief
Every Life has Equal Value
Values
*Optimism
*Collaboration
*Rigor
*Innovation
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4. Areas of Funding

5. *History
In 1994, the foundation was formed as the William H.
Gates Foundation with an initial stock gift of US$94
million.
In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.
After a merger with the Gates Learning Foundation, in
2000, Gates gave an additional US$126 million.
During the foundation's following years, funding grew
to US$2 billion.
A few years later, Gates announced his plans to
transition out of a day-to-day role with Microsoft. As a
result, his plan took effect from July 31, 2008 to
allow him to devote more time to working with the
foundation.
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6. Endorsing vaccines as the world's most
cost-effective public health measure, Bill
and Melinda Gates announced in January
2010 that their foundation would more
than double its spending on them over the
next decade, to at least $10 billion. The
change could save the lives of as many as 8
million children by 2020.
The foundation's work ranges from
providing vaccines to prevent childhood
diseases to conducting research to improve
agricultural yields and prevent malaria,
among other things. One of the founders'
biggest wishes is to help discover vaccines
and other tools that will prevent the
spread of HIV/AIDS.
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7. They focus on developing ways and
solutions to prevent infectious diseases
such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and
tuberculosis.
In addition, they also work on developing
health solutions for family planning,
nutrition, maternal, neonatal and child
health, tobacco control and vaccine-
preventable diseases.
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8. 3 cross-cutting programs help them successfully address
their areas of focus:
* Discovery---closing gaps in knowledge and science and
creating critical platforms technologies in areas where
current tools are lacking.
* Delivery---implementing and scaling up proven
approaches by identifying and proactively addressing
obstacles that typically lie in the path of adoption and
uptake.
* Policy and Advocacy---promoting more and better
resources, effective policies and greater visibility of
global health so that they may effectively address the
foundation’s priority health targets.
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9. Most of their work is done through grants to
partners in their priority areas of focus. They
seek extensive input from external experts and
from their Global Health advisory panel.
They have established offices to help manage large
programs in China and India. Many of their health
efforts are integrated with those in their Global
Development program, which focuses on
reducing hunger and poverty.
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10. *http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Pa
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Mel
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