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Nyoba, 30, whose given name means "mother, have hope," has AIDS. But
that is not what killed her baby daughter, Mankuebe.

Nyoba owes her own life to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which
has given $8.5 billion to global health causes. Through its grantees,
including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the
foundation underwrites, inspires or directs major efforts to prevent,
cure or treat those diseases. The fund pays for Nyoba's costly AIDS
medicine.

But when she gave birth on a recent Sunday morning, her baby was
suffering from a different kind of distress. The infant was limp and
barely breathing. A nurse rushed her to the nursery, packed with sick
babies, some two to a crib. Jury-rigged stethoscope tubes let six of
the babies share lifesaving oxygen from a single valve.

There was no oxygen tube for Mankuebe. She asphyxiated for lack of a
second valve. It would have cost $35.

[...]

The Gates Foundation has targeted AIDS, TB and malaria because of
their devastating health and economic effects in sub-Saharan Africa.
But a Times investigation has found that programs the foundation has
funded, including those of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance,
which finances vaccines, have had mixed influences on key measures of
societal health:

* By pouring most contributions into the fight against such
high-profile killers as AIDS, Gates grantees have increased the demand
for specially trained, higher-paid clinicians, diverting staff from
basic care. The resulting staff shortages have abandoned many children
of AIDS survivors to more common killers: birth sepsis, diarrhea and
asphyxia.

* The focus on a few diseases has shortchanged basic needs such as
nutrition and transportation, undermining the effectiveness of the
foundation's grants. Many AIDS patients have so little food that they
vomit their free AIDS pills. For lack of bus fare, others cannot get
to clinics that offer lifesaving treatment.

* Gates-funded vaccination programs have instructed caregivers to
ignore -- even discourage patients from discussing -- ailments that
the vaccinations cannot prevent. This is especially harmful in
outposts where a visit to a clinic for a shot is the only contact some
villagers have with healthcare providers for years.

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