Gates and Clinton Share Philanthropic Mission
July 11, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
As Bill Gates and Bill Clinton both work through their foundations to fight global health problems, they are increasingly finding ways to collaborate, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave $750,000 to the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation’s efforts to explore ways for people to get access to HIV/AIDS drugs. Next month, Mr. Gates and the former president will share the podium at the XVI International AIDS Conference, in Toronto.
“I think what you’re seeing is the beginning of what you might call the first super NGO … with overlapping interests and a great deal of resources,” says Richard Holbrooke, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and now president and chief executive of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, in New York.
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