Word: gateses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Giving Back Bravo to Jeffrey Sachs for his excellent article "Sharing the Wealth" [May 21]. The blatant indifference of world political leaders to coping with a large segment of the world population's poor health, education and sanitation calls for mobilization of the people who could confront these problems. Benevolent...
More importantly, the Israelis are more realistic and better-informed than Washington as to what's happening in Gaza, and its likely outcome. Many Israeli intelligence officers doubt that a last-minute infusion of weapons could shift the balance away from Hamas. By Tuesday at dusk, 200 Hamas fighters had...
India has far fewer HIV/AIDS cases than previously thought, if a new and comprehensive national health survey is to be believed. The survey, which was partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and which has not yet been released, suggests that the total number of Indians infected by the...
The Indian government has long maintained that AIDS is less of a problem in the country than the United Nations and non-governmental bodies such as the Gates Foundation had claimed. Critics of the aid agencies argue that higher numbers help them by drawing in more funding.
But Ashok Alexander, director of Avahan, the Indian AIDS program of the Gates Foundation, says that while "it's good news that overall the numbers are down, the real danger of this is it masks the real prevalence in one third of India: the south." The study, which leans heavily...