REPRINTED ARTICLE: REUTERS 由 Ben Hirschler
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a further $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives.
"These are tough economic times, but that is no excuse for cutting aid to the world's poorest," he 说 in Davos at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria announced two days 以前 that its executive director, Michel Kazatchkine, was stepping down early following criticism...

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REPRINT 文章 由 Yahoo! News |Newsmakers Tues24Jan2012
By Bill Weir
For the moment, Bill Gates is no longer the world's wealthiest man.
But he didn't lose the 标题 to Mexico's telecom titan Carlos Slim; he gave it away. And as a result, the businessman-turned-philanthropist can point to a different kind of scoreboard.
"Well, it's easiest to measure in the health work," Gates told me, "where over 5 million lives have been saved."
In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo! and ABC News, the former head of Microsoft talked about how Steve Jobs' death affected him, his fix for American schools...