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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 said in Davos at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced two days ago that its executive director, Michel Kazatchkine, was stepping down early following criticism over misuse of funds and cuts in funding.
The public-private organization, based in Geneva, 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.
But it has been forced to cut back and said last year it would make no new grants or funding until 2014.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $750 million through a promissory note — a fresh injection in addition to the $650 million that the Gates charity has contributed since the fund was launched 10 years ago.
(Reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Jon Boyle; For full Reuters coverage from Davos go to www.reuters.com/davos)
- I wish I can become richer. Not wealthy as Bill Gates but maybe have a million to donate for AIDS people worldwide.. It ain’t easy for those people that live with AIDS.
International Diabetes Association reported that at least seven million people diagnosed with the disease each year.It is like an epidemic that is widespread and rapid, diabetes is actually a threat to the world’s population.Disease is divided into two types, first by the body’s insulin deficiency and type of the second body is not able to use the insulin produced properly.
The expression which says that ‘you are what you eat “actually describes the health status depends on what you ate.This also means that anyone who was diagnosed with diabetes can control the disease with proper nutrition. The first type of diabetes usually results from the seed. While the second type due to external factors such as unhealthy lifestyle by eating nutritious foods.
Most foods that are enjoyed today is the high sugar content. Whenever the fiber content is also low.Adding with smoking behavior, he adds more potential to get the disease.
There’s a study that talking or texting on a cellphone while walking will slow you down and make it difficult to walk in straight line. The research include 33 men and women in 20s and found the result the ability in walking will reduce. The participants test shown it will slow 33 percent of their walking speed while texting and 16 percent slower while talking. The research by Stony Brook University has published in online edition of the journal Gait & Posture. The result shows that using cellphone will affect working memory in areas of the brain that control executive function and attention.
The result will be used by physical therapy to improve their patients of true functional walking.
Source :- MSN Health