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Gates Foundation wants global health push

Global philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are launching a major push to convince the United States to maintain government spending on worldwide health initiatives, despite the financial crisis and a soaring U.S. budget deficit.

CNNMoney: These nonprofit CEOs are getting raises

Nonprofit CEOs didn't feel the economic pinch in 2008 despite charitable giving having declined for the first time since 1987.

Liquid condoms to flying syringes: Ideas to save lives

Since it was founded in 1994, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been instrumental in encouraging innovative research that will combat the biggest health issues affecting the developing world.

Fighting Africa's brain drain

A group of African scientists last week called on rich nations to help stem the tide of African talent leaving the continent's universities.

Fortune: Best advice: Gates on Gates

It's certainly a unique father-son relationship. The man who created one of the largest fortunes in history, now in his second career as a philanthropist, has his dad working for him as co-chair of the world's largest charitable organization -- the $27.5 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Actually, this is a second act for both men. Bill Gates, 53, stepped down from day-to-day work at Microsoft last June, while his father, Bill Gates Sr., 83, retired from the prominent Seattle law firm Preston Gates & Ellis (now known as K&L Gates), in 1998. These days both men give counsel to each other, but for years, of course, Dad doled out indispensable advice to his son. I recently sat down with this unlikely buddy act in the famed Leonard Bernstein suite at the Hôtel de Crillon on Paris's Place de la Concorde to ask them about the best advice they ever got.

African couples urged to get HIV 'love test'

Couples in the African kingdom of Swaziland are being urged to get tested together as part of a HIV "love test" campaign.

Can malaria deaths be eradicated by 2015?

Malaria is preventable and curable, yet every 30 seconds, a child in sub-Saharan Africa dies from the disease, according to the World Health Organization.

Soccer pro survives malaria, now helps others

Saana Nyassi considers himself lucky.

Commentary: Yes, we can eradicate malaria

For the past few decades when talking about malaria, public health officials and malaria experts have avoided the word "eradication."

Commentary: Throwing billions at schools won't fix them

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama's stimulus package, could serve as a historic investment in our children's future, an initiative that could very well change the course of our nation.

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