Gateses find philanthropy on grand scale can be messy
Bill and Melinda Gates naïvely believed it would be easy to give billions to fix the world's ills. But they learned that philanthropy can be highly political and many didn't like an 8,000-pound, do-gooder gorilla jumping in. (May 29, 2002)

Seattle has a growing role in AIDS fight
In the worldwide effort to develop an AIDS vaccine, Seattle is becoming a global nerve center, home to key research initiatives and, of course, the financial resources of the Gates Foundation. (Dec. 1, 2001)

A renewed battle against a tiny killer
The creatures descend from the sky, their hovering transports hidden under cover of darkness, to launch an invasion on Earth. Silently, simultaneously, millions of people are attacked and millions die. This is reality, the entrenched and agonizing problem of malaria. ((May 29, 2001)

Saving lives with a simple mix of sugar and salt
It is a simple and inexpensive weapon against one of the world's top killer diseases. Brought to fruition by scientists in Bangladesh, it is the kind of solution to global health problems that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to champion. (May 7, 2001)

Prevention vs. treatment: Gates fights group pushing U.S. to buy AIDS drugs for Africa
Bill Gates and other leading philanthropists are squaring off against a prestigious Harvard University group calling for wealthy nations to buy AIDS drugs for Africa and other developing nations. (April 9, 2001)

Dispensing Hope: First shots in global attack on disease
Today, children in Mozambique will be the first to get vaccines from an unprecedented new global health initiative launched out of Seattle by Bill Gates. (April 6, 2001)