Bill Gates tem 56 anos de idade, deixou o cargo de CEO da Microsoft, há uma década. Ele ainda seria o homem mais rico da América, se ele e sua esposa Melinda não estivessem ocupados doando dinheiro. A Fundação Bill e Melinda Gates Foundation repassou por 25 bilhões de dólares, não só para obter vacinas para as crianças que deles necessitam, mas para mudar a maneira como as vacinas são desenvolvidos, fabricados e distribuídos globalmente.
Os resultados têm sido igualmente enormes:
3,4 milhão de vidas salvas de hepatite B, que causa câncer de fígado,
1,2 milhões de vidas de sarampo, 560 mil da bactéria Hib,
474 mil de tosse convulsa,
140.000 por febre amarela e 30.000 da pólio.
No ano passado, as novas iniciativas têm impedido outras 8.000 mortes por pneumonia e 1.000 de diarréia.
Se isso for verdade e acho que é...pelo menos alguém esta olhando pelo próximo.Pena que tão poucos
olhem para o lado e preocupam-se com a realidade do mundo:
Há gente precisando de ajuda e estão muito próximos!
Bill Gates is only 56 years old, but he stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft a decade ago. He’d still be the richest man in America if he and his wife Melinda hadn’t been so busy giving money away. And instead of just donating, they did the research to determine how they would get the most bang for the buck. As it turns out, those bucks get a lot of bang when you use them to buy simple vaccines. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has gone through 25 billion dollars to not only get vaccines to children who need them, but to change the way that vaccines are developed, manufactured, and distributed globally.
The results have been equally massive: 3.4 million lives saved from hepatitis B, which causes liver cancer, 1.2 million lives from measles, 560,000 from the Hib bacteria, 474,000 from whooping cough, 140,000 from yellow fever and 30,000 from polio. In the past year the new initiatives have prevented another 8,000 deaths from pneumonia and 1,000 from diarrhea.
“I’ve met mothers who walked eight hours to get their child a vaccine and hoped that it’s there on that day,” Melinda says. On a trip in January to a rural clinic in Kenya she saw four children with pneumonia sharing a single oxygen tube. “They were just sucking breath,” she recalls. But across the clinic the Gates Foundation work showcased a different future: Children lined up to get the new vaccine that would dramatically reduce the risk they would ever get pneumonia.
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