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In reply to the discussion: The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is not as pure as it seems. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The Gates sat down and, as I recall, considered what they could do that would save lives on as large a scale as possible.
It's in other countries, rather than the U.S., where there are a lot of deaths from things that people in other countries don't die from, for which there are cures, and that the Gates believed they would be able to save lives. Like deaths from polio (there's a polio vaccine, and it's not that difficult to distribute it). They wanted the $ to go toward saving as many lives as possible. Death from childbirth was a Melinda Gates cause.
It not only had to have a solution or cure, but it would have to be possible for the Gates to get in there and implement the solution.
They did not go after illnesses or problems which were extremely difficult to solve, or where there is no "cure," seeking instead to focus on those situations where this is a cure/solution and the Gates Foundation could implement or distribute the cure/solution.