Gates Foundation Pledges $1.5 Billion for Mother and Child Health (AIDS)

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $1.5 billion during the next five years for improving maternal and child health, family planning and nutrition in developing countries, The Seattle Times reports.

“It is not that the world doesn’t know how to save the 350,000 mothers and 3 million newborns who die each year,” said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the foundation. “It is that we haven’t tried hard enough.”

Family planning could reduce maternal deaths by 30 percent and newborn deaths by 20 percent, Gaits said. She plans to make mother and child health outcomes her personal priority.
http://www.poz.com/articles/Fund_Maternal_Health_1_18520.shtml

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