October 27, 2009
Bill And Melinda Gates Push to Show Successes of Global Health Aid
By Ian Wilhelm
Washington
Bill and Melinda Gates have started an advocacy campaign to show the success of government foreign-assistance programs, saying that continued support for them could halve the number of child deaths in poor nations by 2025.
While aimed at policymakers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said the effort may also influence philanthropists and other grant makers as they make hard choices about what causes to support during the recession.
The campaign, which includes television commercials and a Washington event tonight, is a “thank you” to taxpayers and politicians for providing money to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, antimalarial work, and other programs, the Gateses told The Chronicle and other reporters in an interview.
“As we travel around for the foundation, which we do quite a bit in the developing world, we realize that we see a lot of hope on the ground,” said Ms. Gates. “And yet when you come back to the U.S. and you read the newspaper, you go on the Internet, you’re not hearing about the positive changes that are happening because of these American investments.”
Watch the Webcast below:
Decline in Deaths
The couple said foreign aid is not always spent wisely, but overall it is effective and has helped lead to a dramatic decline in child deaths in the developing world, from 20 million in 1960 to 9 million today.
They said with increased assistance, especially providing better basic health services to newborns and new mothers, that number could drop to 5 million in 15 years.
Federal funds to improve health abroad have increased dramatically, climbing from $1.5-billion in 2001 to $7.7-billion in 2009. While acknowledging that the United States faces a growing budget deficit, Mr. Gates said he hopes the Obama administration and Congress will increase that amount, though he declined to say specifically how much.
“We’re not naming what the increase should be,” he said.
‘Hard-Nosed’ View
When asked why it falls to a foundation to highlight the good work of government, Mr. Gates said his organization brings some “credibility” to the discussion.
“We bring a hard-nosed, business, numerical, and analytical point of view to things, and yet we see here something that’s pretty amazing,” he said.
Added Ms. Gates: “We see that these things are working, and we’re willing to continue to make investments. I think then other people say, Okay, it must be working or people wouldn’t put their own money into it.”
To kick off the campaign, which is known as the Living Proof project, the foundation has invited members of Congress, Obama administration health officials, charity leaders, and the news media to an event at a theater in downtown Washington tonight. The Gateses will appear onstage, giving a 70-minute multimedia presentation about their findings.
The event will be broadcast online. Information is available on the Living Proof Web site.
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Wish statistics were not delivered aiming at so many years ahead. It reduces credibility and interest to a great extent.
— Eugene Yakub Oct 27, 05:07 PM #
Thanks Bill and Melinda Gates for all that you do and especially for bringing visibility to critical global needs. Many Americans(myself included) are not aware of the life changing results acheived by their tax dollars. Our country has a long history of helping others. My fervent hope is that not only continues but grows. If people were well, they could go to school and learn skills to truly break the cycle of poverty.
— Eileen M Wilhem Oct 27, 09:12 PM #
Needles to say what Bill and Melinda Gates are doing are worthy, but social satisfaction, good public health and political stability. That entirely depends of economic development and investment in economic production, in businesses that distribute wealth in local and regional economies via employment rather than via foreign aid and welfare. Bill and Melinda Gates and theirs foundation would get more bang for the buck and more recognition. By focus more on the underlying issues that unsolved causes adversities and somatic and mental health problems also at home in United States.
Kell Petersen
— Kell Petersen Oct 28, 02:18 PM #
THE CURE for HIV/AIDS…….AMBUSH
THE IDEA that AMBUSH cures AIDS
is being proven by the more than 400 individuals who have taken a dose of 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. The result is that AMBUSH ‘KILLS’ the virus by causing the protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white blood cells. AMBUSH is able to ‘KILL’ the virus that are ‘hiding’ in the lymph system by its ‘natural radioactive’ properties. This process allows the body to ‘return to normal health’ with a corresponding immunity to that or those strains of the virus.
What is AMBUSH ?
AMBUSH is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the ‘palm’ plant of which there are more than 3000 species. When ingested, AMBUSH causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individuals for consumption 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. AMBUSH is a herbal preparation in this form but it contains an active ingredient which is a ‘NEW’ crystalline substance, a drug from the ‘palm plant’ similarly to ASPIRIN originating from the willow tree bark
RESULTS:
After 21 days on AMBUSH, ALL the individuals experienced a decrease in viral load to undetectable, an increase in cd4, increase in RBC, an improvement in general health such as more color to the face, decrease in Buffalo hump, an increase in gluteal muscles, a decrease to having no joint pains whereby individuals can bend to touch their toes, and walk up steps are but a few examples. There is also a dramatic increase in their sexual appetite beginning after the first week of therapy
DISCUSSION:
In any plant concoction such as percolated ‘tea’, there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure.
As an antiviral and ‘natural radioactivity’ producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have ‘GIVEN’ AMBUSH in the same ‘strength’ and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on ‘green tea’ and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV’s, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in ‘good’ health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH.
I have sent this ‘IDEA’ to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ?
I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research.
PROPOSAL:
My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained.
This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years.
The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE.
Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been ‘hijacked’ and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners.
It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were ‘killed’ at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV.
I am also willing to work with the scientific community in identifying those individuals who took AMBUSH and wish to be identified with this process notwithstanding that some are stigmatized while others are jubilant,
Once AMBUSH is verified as being able to accomplish that which is aforementioned then the next stage might be the natural and artificial synthesis of the substance.
Finally, if this is accepted or not, believed or not, THE LORD GOD always wins and this is the heavenly truth to which AMBUSH was divinely given to mankind for the CURE of HIV/AIDS and it will be here forever. Apostle Shada Mishe.
apostleshadamishe@gmail.com
Here is a video taped presentation that I gave at t he Martin Luther King library in Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V53D1w__Po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwuwlVBOV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejptOwMTzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcTgIAhrhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7HPKcT_iwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iQfgiYAnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3RzRS6tJDM
— apostle shada mishe Nov 1, 04:17 PM #
Many thanks, once again, to the Gateses! So much of our work yields results decades, not days, later. Let’s hope they improve our ability to convey this message in the age of instant gratification!
— Ruth Conner Nov 2, 08:59 AM #