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I'm only judging by results and facts. You're talking in vague terms and not citing any facts. Did you even bother to look at the biggest recipients of Gates Fo
by cromwellian 7y ago
I'm only judging by results and facts. You're talking in vague terms and not citing any facts. Did you even bother to look at the biggest recipients of Gates Foundation donations? A lot of the money he's donated has gone to the World Health Organization, which is exactly the policy makers and deliberative body you're asking him to go through. A lot of Gates Foundation orgs are transparent, and the orgs they donate too are often international NGO or GOs like the WHO.
Gates Foundation Donations:
$2.6 billion to GAVI, global vaccine alliance
$2.2 billion to WHO
$1.3 billion to United Negro College Fund
$800 million to Unicef
$700 million to global AIDS and Malaria foundations
$500 million to John Hopkins University
$500 million to global tuberculosis org
I don't see any facts posted that quantify what the Gates Foundation is doing, how money is being distributed, or how many people have been helped. I've just posted some.
I mean good lord, the UN/WHO has some figures on this:
450 million mosquito nets given out due to Gates
Near eradication of Guinea worm thanks to Carter Center, whose major benefactor is Gates (3.5 million infections eliminated)
7.3 million people got anti-retroviral AIDS treatment thanks to Gates funding
12 million people got TB testing from Gates Foundation funding
500 million children vaccinated by GAVI
24 million women got access to family planning thanks to Gates
You're making all sorts of claims that Gates does not work with policy makers. Really? Bill Gates rolodex does not include the ability to dial up and talk to practically any diplomat or government official in the world? You don't think Gates Org talks with with international health officials or local governments and they're just going cowboy everywhere?
What's the evidence?
Some people voted down my comments, but none of them provided ANY information to back up claims that the Gates foundation is doing something wrong, that they haven't been effective. About the only claim with any weight at all is the dispute about the efficacy of charter schools, but that runs into an ideological debate about how the school system and teaching should work and there opinions widely differ. Far more damage to the educational system has been done by the existing policy makers.