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(From L to R) Former Chairman of Microsoft and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates, Treasurer of the African Development Bank Arunma Oteh, Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria Executive Secretary Dr Francoise Ndayishimiye, Archbishop Desmond...

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India's Leander Paes (L) celebrates with US tennis legend Martina Navratilova (foreground R) eyed by Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,after winning with teammate Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy against South Africa's Wesley Moodie and Belgiums' Dick Norman...

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US tennis legend Martina Navratilova (R) and Bill Gates (C), Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation attend the French Open tennis men's doubles final match opposing India's Leander Paes and Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy to South Africa's Wesley Moodie and Belgiums' Dick Norman...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: (L-R) Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, Rockville Mayor Susan Hoffmann, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations President and CEO Jerald Sadoff, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Senior Program Officer Jan Gheuens cut a...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: (L-R) Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations President and CEO Jerald Sadoff, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Senior Program Officer Jan Gheuens talk during an opening ceremony for the new Aeras vaccine manufacturing plant May 4,...

Elias Zerhouni, senior fellow in the Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and former director at the National Institutes of Health speaks during a panel discussion on "the Future of Health" at the 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills,California April...

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Software magnate Bill Gates during the signing ceremony for a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese government in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 1 , 2009. The $33 million project will test new ways to diagnose drug-resistant TB, new treatments and...

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Software magnate Bill Gates, right, and Chinese Health Minister, Chen Zhu, left, attend the signing ceremony for a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese government in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 1 , 2009. The $33 million project will test new ways...

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arrives for a signing ceremony on tuberculosis prevention and treatment between Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Health in Beijing April 1, 2009. Health officials gathered in Beijing on...

Bill Gates (R), the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks as he and Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu attend a signing ceremony on tuberculosis prevention and treatment between Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Health in Beijing April...

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Bill Gates, the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, adjusts earphone during a signing ceremony for a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese government in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 1 , 2009. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and...

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Bill Gates, the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at the opening ceremony of a three-day meeting on drug-resistant Tuberculosis, in Beijing Wednesday, April 1, 2009. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told health ministers and senior officials from 27...

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, right, talks with Indian Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh during the 2007 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development award function at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Saturday, July 25, 2009. The award was conferred to the Bill...

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Director of the Unique Identification Authority of India Nandan Nilekani, right, speaks with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, during the 2007 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development award function at the Presidential Palace, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, July 25, 2009.

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: An Anhydro spray dryer, which will give the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant the ability to create tuberculosis vaccines in powder form, is seen May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Small glass vial like those that will hold tuberculosis vaccines move through a filling machine during a tour of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Manufacturing Associate Tina Miller demonstrates the machinery that will fill small glass vials with individual doses of a tuberculosis vaccine at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Manufacturing Engineer Nate Forrest leads a tour of the area where small glass vials are filled with individual doses of a tuberculosis vaccine at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: A guide leads visitors through the purification area of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will be capable of producing 200 million doses of a new TB...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: A guide shows visitors machines used to maintain a BioSafety Level-2 during a tour of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will be capable of producing...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Temporary paper signs designate a vaccine storage area during a tour of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will be capable of producing 200 million...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Rolling containers stand at the ready in the buffer preparation area of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will be capable of producing 200 million...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations President and CEO Jerald Sadoff addresses the opening ceremony for the new Aeras vaccine manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will be capable of producing 200...

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(FILES): This recent, undated handout photograph shows Benard Odero, GLCI Kenya country program manager, showing a ruggedized mini-computer being piloted in the field for data collection in Kenya. The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative is a CRS-led project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates...

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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2003, file photo Washington Gov. Gary Locke, left, Bill and Melinda Gates, respectively right and center, react to comments by former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo during the grand opening of the William H. Gates Hall, the new home of the University of Washington...