Gates Foundation desires worldwide health push

Worldwide philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates is today founding an better attempt to convince the U.S. to maintain public spending on health initiatives worldwide, despite the economic crisis and rising deficits States United in the budget.

It aims to reduce by nearly one-half the number of child dyings annually, nine million to 5 million.

"It is a tragedy of almost unimaginable balances," told Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CNN, Christiane Amanpour. "How we deal with this problem is whether we as citizens of the world are ready to tackle the greatest troubles in the world."

Yamada has also highlighted the serious problem of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth. "There are many, many mothers who die at birth, which many people are not treated in their major health problems, and we think this is something that is a major cause of inequality in the world and must be corrected."

Gates believes that the execution of new strategies to reduce the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth in approximately one third.

Foundation staff highlights four key strategies that the key to success in improving global health: immunization of 90 per cent of children with vaccines, the intensification of the fight against malaria, provision of health services based on less than 75 percent of pregnant women and newborns and treat more people against diarrhea and pneumonia.

The Gates Foundation has announced that it will not solve all these problems alone, despite a budget that is larger than the economies of many countries, and he says he needs the help of the United States and of other governments. In an interview, "Melinda Gates said:" Our money is very low, despite the billions of dollars in resources available to your organization.

Yamada, reinforced this view in his interview with Amanpour.

"The Gates Foundation is relatively new. We spend a large sum of money to global health, but how much money we spend is small compared to the amount of money spent by the world and certainly a lot of money is needed to address major problems in the world for mothers and children, he said. The United States currently spends about $ 8 dollars per year in global health initiative, a sum that has increased considerably since 2001.

For reviews of the Gates Foundation, who say they are trying to impose solutions in developing countries, "Yamada said," We do not intend to steer the health situation in the country. We work very closely with the World Health Organization and all others - and certainly governments and health systems in developing countries. But we believe that there are problems that are treatable and should be addressed.

Addiction is a major problem for many of the donor community and African leaders who are concerned about the sovereignty of their nations.

Moyo Dambis economist, author of "Dead Aid" has been a fierce critic of the policies of international assistance for many years. In an interview with CNN earlier this year, said: "Even the strongest advocates of the Assistance would see a time when Africa can stand on its own and you do not have to rely on foreign aid for the provision of public goods like education, health, infrastructure, and with certainty .

"I mean, we must ask ourselves what kind of company is it?" And we're totally independent, if indeed all these types of public goods are actually still dependent on foreign exchange? And I am really committed to a point where it can have a serious discussion on exit strategies.