Bill Gates Gives $750M To AIDS Fund

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 27, 2012 @08:29AM from the chunk-of-change dept.

redletterdave writes "Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives. Since the fund was launched 10 years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $1.4 billion to the charity, having already contributed $650 million prior to the latest donation. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria accounts for around a quarter of international financing to fight HIV and AIDS, as well as the majority of funds to fight TB and malaria."

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it should go to tuberculosis, not HIV by poppopret · 2012-01-27 08:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Tuberculosis is common, deadly, difficult to avoid, and now sometimes even impossible to treat. HIV is a disease that hits the very unlucky and the very stupid. If you're very unlucky, I'm sorry to hear that, but statistically you're a rounding error. Tuberculosis is an **airborne** killer. (read: uber-fucking-scary germs from Hell)