[lbo-talk] RE: psychopathology of every day life.

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 6 23:41:57 PST 2004


Do psychopaths do this?

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm Fighting the Spread of HIV/AIDS within High-Risk Populations Melinda Gates recently visited with commercial sex workers in Kolkata, India. The foundation has committed $200 million to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS within the country and is working with populations most at risk of contracting and spreading HIV.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/public/media/annualreports/annualreport02/grants.Amount.htm http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/public/media/annualreports/annualreport02/health.htm GAIN. While addressing the United Nations Special Session on Children, Bill Gates announced a $50 million commitment to support the formation of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition to reduce vitamin and mineral deficiencies among children in developing nations. Malaria Vaccine Candidate. The Malaria Vaccine Initiative launched a clinical trial in Mozambique to further evaluate a promising malaria vaccine candidate that could protect children from the world’s deadliest tropical disease. Protecting Children. The Vaccine Fund increased access to newer and underused vaccines, and now reaches 60 countries worldwide. Lymphatic Filariasis. The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, of which the foundation is a partner, helped treat more than 2.5 million people in 38 countries to date. The Alliance hopes to eliminate the disease by 2020. Neonatal Tetanus. The Global Campaign to Eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) has protected 15 million women from tetanus to date, which is estimated to have saved 15,000 newborn lives. By accelerating its efforts to immunize women of child-bearing age, UNICEF and its partners are committed to eliminating MNT by 2005. Schistosomiasis. The foundation committed $30 million to establish the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative to provide health education in the most heavily infected regions of Africa and treat victims of this parasitic disease that affects more than 200 million people in developing countries. Contraception. The foundation announced a series of grants worth $45.7 million to fund the research and development of new approaches to contraception and disease prevention.



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