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Bill Gates: Solving malnutrition is both a global health and economic imperative

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Sep 17, 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.
"It's an investment in their stability, their child survival, their helping the world economy," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said. Malnutrition is a key focus of this year's Goalkeepers Report, which the Foundation releases annually to track progress on United Nations' targets for global improvement.
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Toilet advocate brings levity to complex matter of global sanitation needs

by Nina Roberts
Jan 23, 2020
“The toilet is the cheapest medicine in the world,” says Jack Sim.
Jack Sims, founder of the World Toilet Organization.
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New effort ranks drugmakers by impact

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 23, 2015
The idea is to give companies another incentive to treat infectious diseases.
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Private donors keep pace with government Ebola funding

by Kelsey Fowler
Oct 14, 2014
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg joins Bill Gates and others with $25 million pledge
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How companies help workers with their mental health

by Dan Gorenstein
Oct 10, 2014
Only 45 percent say they get help from employers to meet mental health needs.
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Inside the work of Ebola 'Disease Detectives'

by Dan Gorenstein
Oct 7, 2014
'Geeky problem solvers' who keep tabs on people potentially exposed to Ebola.
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Heaven in Rwanda

by Lizzie O'Leary
Nov 25, 2013
Josh Roxin and his wife Alissa moved to Rwanda for health and development, but opened a restaurant instead.
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