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International News USA Today Examines Gates Foundation's WorkJune 3, 2010 USA Today examines the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and interviews the organization's CEO Jeffrey Raikes. "While companies develop drugs or technologies to make money and governments deploy tax dollars for services, the Gates Foundation -- whose central tenet is 'all lives have equal value' -- is a catalyst philanthropist pushing sometimes risky innovations to reach audacious goals. Among them: eradicate malaria and polio, vastly curb new HIV infections, reduce hunger and poverty in Africa ... To achieve those goals, the Gates Foundation funds ... vaccine researchers and efforts to revolutionize agricultural production in Africa, in part, by increasing crop yields," USA Today writes. The article reports on different perspectives about the Gates Foundation's influence and approach to global health and other work (Schmit, 6/2). Back to other news for June 2010
 This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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