New polio cases found due to pause in immunisation during COVID-19 time, says expert from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2 years, 5 months ago

New polio cases found due to pause in immunisation during COVID-19 time, says expert from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Hindu  

A pause in the immunisation programme at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic has led to the finding of fresh polio cases in countries such as the U.S., U.K. and Mozambique this year, according to an expert associated with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mr. Bandyopadhyay coordinates global research aimed at achieving and sustaining polio eradication besides developing novel polio vaccines, generation of data to generate polio immunisation policies and advancement of improved detection and surveillance tools. "The recent polio detections in the U.S. and U.K. — and wild poliovirus outbreak in Malawi and Mozambique confirmed earlier this year — are an urgent reminder that if polio exists anywhere in the world, it remains a threat everywhere,” Mr. Bandyopadhyay said. "As with every country around the world, it is important that India maintain high immunisation rates against polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases,” Mr. Bandyopadhyay said.

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Bill Gates fears world on brink of war, pandemic possible within 25 years
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Bill Gates fears world on brink of war, pandemic possible within 25 years

Live Mint  

Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, has sounded the alarm on two major global concerns: the threat of war and the lingering pandemic. According to Bill Gates, many disturbances in the world today could lead to a major war, and even if the war is avoided, a pandemic is possible, most likely in the next 25 years. Bill …

Measles over Mars: Bill Gates takes a jab at Elon Musk's space ambitions
2 years, 1 month ago

Measles over Mars: Bill Gates takes a jab at Elon Musk's space ambitions

Hindustan Times  

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has made it clear he will not join the ‘billionaire space race’ as he feels funding vaccines is more important than colonising Mars; the comment has been seen as a dig at Twitter boss Elon Musk and his ambitions. In an interview to British broadcaster BBC, Gates said he doesn’t think Musk is a ‘great philanthropist’ …

Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally
2 years, 5 months ago

Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally

Associated Press  

BERLIN — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The initiative is trying to end the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two endemic countries, the foundation said in a statement Sunday. Despite the billions of dollars that have gone into the effort to eradicate polio …

Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally
2 years, 5 months ago

Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Bill and Melinda Gates …

Pakistan honors Bill Gates for efforts on poverty, disease
3 years, 1 month ago

Pakistan honors Bill Gates for efforts on poverty, disease

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan awarded Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates its second-highest civilian honor on Thursday, in recognition of his work to alleviate poverty and diseases like polio and tuberculosis. “Pakistan’s commitment to ending polio is inspiring,” Gates said in a statement released by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The statement quoted Khan as thanking Gates and saying …

2022 Pakistan polio vaccinations key to eradication goal: Gates
3 years, 1 month ago

2022 Pakistan polio vaccinations key to eradication goal: Gates

Al Jazeera  

Islamabad, Pakistan – Continuing and sustained polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2022 are likely to determine whether the world can entirely eradicate the debilitating virus, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said on his first visit to Pakistan, one of the two countries where the disease remains endemic. Gates, a US-based billionaire who made his name as the …

Bill Gates bewildered by conspiracy theories about him and Covid vaccines: ‘Why would I want to do that?’
3 years, 2 months ago

Bill Gates bewildered by conspiracy theories about him and Covid vaccines: ‘Why would I want to do that?’

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Conspiracy theories involving Bill …

Bill Gates believes Covid 19 vaccine tech should not be given to India, what he said and why he said it
3 years, 10 months ago

Bill Gates believes Covid 19 vaccine tech should not be given to India, what he said and why he said it

India Today  

Tech bigwig and Microsoft founder Bill Gates attracted criticism after a recent interview in which he expressed his reluctance in sharing Covid-19 vaccine technologies with developing countries like India. Even though Gates cites security issues and said it would be too expensive to share the vaccine patents with developing countries, several reports have highlighted the profit-making side of the Bill …

Bill Gates predicts world will be ‘completely back to normal’ by 2022
4 years ago

Bill Gates predicts world will be ‘completely back to normal’ by 2022

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill …

Bill Gates doesn’t see a formal role in Biden administration
4 years, 3 months ago

Bill Gates doesn’t see a formal role in Biden administration

Live Mint  

Billionaire Bill Gates said he doesn’t expect to take on a formal role in Joe Biden’s administration, but his foundation will liaise with the incoming government on future infectious disease control. “I think our foundation will be part of that dialogue to make sure we don’t blow it again.” When asked if he will serve any role in future task …

Very Large Portion of Covid-19 Vaccines Likely to Be Manufactured in India: Gates Foundation CEO
4 years, 5 months ago

Very Large Portion of Covid-19 Vaccines Likely to Be Manufactured in India: Gates Foundation CEO

News 18  

A very large portion of COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be manufactured in India through the country’s strong and robust private sector partners, said Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman. “I think India is doing everything it can right now with the resources at hand, but we are all hopeful that next year as some of these vaccines …

Coronavirus has set global health progress back decades: Gates Foundation
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus has set global health progress back decades: Gates Foundation

India Today  

The knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic have halted and reversed global health progress, setting it back 25 years and exposing millions to the risk of deadly disease and poverty, a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation warned on Tuesday. The Foundation's Goalkeepers report, which tracks progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of reducing poverty and …

Bill Gates Discusses Pakistan's Anti-polio Drive With Pakistan Army chief
4 years, 7 months ago

Bill Gates Discusses Pakistan's Anti-polio Drive With Pakistan Army chief

News 18  

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discussed the resumption of Pakistan's polio drive with Army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and the support needed to ensure proper reach and coverage of the campaign against the crippling disease amid the coronavirus pandemic. Pakistan's military on Saturday said the Microsoft co-founder and the Army chief discussed the safe start and efforts needed to effectively …

Covid-19 drugs should go to people who need them, not ’highest bidder’: Bill Gates
4 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 drugs should go to people who need them, not ’highest bidder’: Bill Gates

Live Mint  

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called for COVID-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them most, not to the "highest bidder," saying relying on market forces would prolong the deadly pandemic. "If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where …

'Microbes, Not Missiles': Did Bill Gates Warn Us About COVID-19 Pandemic in 2015?
5 years ago

'Microbes, Not Missiles': Did Bill Gates Warn Us About COVID-19 Pandemic in 2015?

News 18  

"Today the greatest risk of a global catastrophic doesn't look like this, but like this," said Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2015. At a time when the outbreak of the COVID-19 has gripped the world, a five year old video of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has surfaced where he predicted a pandemic affecting the humankind. We’re not ready", Bill Gates …

Bill Gates on ending disease, saving lives: ‘Time is on our side’
5 years, 11 months ago

Bill Gates on ending disease, saving lives: ‘Time is on our side’

Al Jazeera  

The billionaire’s foundation aims to eliminate many of the world’s preventable diseases, but it has its critics. “My focus is on the opportunity of the human capital here in Africa,” Gates told Al Jazeera on a recent visit to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where he met heads of state at an African Union summit to talk about healthcare. There’s a …

World Polio Day: Unicef delivers the vaccine worldwide
6 years, 4 months ago

World Polio Day: Unicef delivers the vaccine worldwide

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In the last 30 years, the polio virus has been attacked …

Polio Could Be Stopped Worldwide By Year's End, Says Gates Foundation
7 years, 5 months ago

Polio Could Be Stopped Worldwide By Year's End, Says Gates Foundation

Huff Post  

Khaled Abdullah / Reuters A boy receives polio vaccination drops during a house-to-house vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on April 10, 2016. Speaking at Rotary International’s World Polio Day event on Tuesday, which was co-hosted by the Gates Foundation, Dr. Jay Wenger, the director of the foundation’s polio eradication program, said humanity had successfully reached “the endgame of polio …

Melinda effusive on India’sconquest of polio
12 years, 2 months ago

Melinda effusive on India’sconquest of polio

The Hindu  

If Bill Gates is talking about India’s achievement in making the country polio-free at the World Economic Forum at Davos, his wife is here saying, “To be done with it is really unbelievable and worth something.” “Two years free of polio, India is quite something when we think of the scepticism of 2000. On resistance to inclusion of pentavalent vaccine …

I have no use for money, says billionaire Gates
12 years, 2 months ago

I have no use for money, says billionaire Gates

The Hindu  

William Henry ‘Bill’ Gates with an estimated wealth of $65 billion is as rich as two Kenyas; three Trinidads; and a dozen Montenegros but is now engaged in the process of ridding himself of all the money in the hope of extending the lives of others less fortunate than himself. “I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food …

With An Army Of Vaccinators, India Subdues Polio
12 years, 5 months ago

With An Army Of Vaccinators, India Subdues Polio

NPR  

With An Army Of Vaccinators, India Subdues Polio Enlarge this image toggle caption Julie McCarthy/NPR Julie McCarthy/NPR All this week, we've been examining the world's last remaining pockets of polio, a disease for which there is no cure. But ultimately the purpose is that we need to reach each and every child," says Dr. Ajay Khera, the deputy commissioner of …

Gates praises India's success in polio eradication
12 years, 9 months ago

Gates praises India's success in polio eradication

The Hindu  

India's success in polio eradication has infused positive energy into the global campaign against the disease, Bill Gates, founder-chairperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said on Thursday. Terming India's experience with polio eradication a “big thing,” he said he had spent more time on this programme than anything else. “It is a real achievement.” Interacting with a group …

Bill Gates Praises India For Polio Eradication
13 years, 2 months ago

Bill Gates Praises India For Polio Eradication

India TV News  

New Delhi, Jan 26: Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has praised India for managing to eradicate polio despite all odds. This is a milestone for global polio eradication and for children's health worldwide, Mr. Gates said in his fourth annual letter released worldwide on Wednesday. The biggest focus for 2012 would be improving the polio vaccination …

Polio free year, India's greatest public health achievement: WHO
13 years, 2 months ago

Polio free year, India's greatest public health achievement: WHO

Firstpost  

The United Nations, leading world organisations, including the Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation celebrated India’s first polio free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. Washington: The United Nations, leading world organisations, including the Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation celebrated India’s first polio free year and termed it as a major milestone …

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