12-22-2003, 08:51 AM
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...125591437.html
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Bill Gates, the world's richest man with the world's biggest philanthropic war chest at $US24 billion ($A33 billion), has made fighting disease in the developing world his top humanitarian priority.
The Seattle philanthropy spends about $US800 million a year on global health ? nearly the same as the World Health Organisation's annual budget and about as much as the US Agency for International Development gave this year to fight AIDS and other diseases in developing countries.
"I don't think very many people appreciate just how significant this is, in both concept and scope," says Dr William Foege, the former chief of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Foege, who crafted the global strategy that defeated smallpox, now advises Gates.
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