Bill Gates picks "Good news of 2014 you might have missed"

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said,Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationAs a co-chairman of the company, to lower the infection rate of AIDSContribution to develop next-generation condomWe do various activities, such as providing funds for the creation of online textbooks to American universities whose textbook prices are rising. Such "good news of 2014 that you might have missed" which Bill · Gates chose selected was announced.

Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 | Bill Gates
http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2014

◆ 1: Children who can have 5th birthday increase


For Bill Gates, the best way to confirm progress is "how much child's death can be prevented beforehand". Children who have 5 years old birthday are increasing more than before and children's mortality rate has declined for 42 consecutive years including 2014. I posted this issue with a graphThe EconomistAccording to 2001, since the year 2001, the lives of 13.6 million children worldwide are saved.

Falling child mortality: The causes of a welcome trend | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21620223-setting-goals-helped-save-young-lives-causes-welcome-trend

◆ 2: A big step in eradicating AIDS


According to data released by Reuters, for the first time in 2013 the number of patients treated with HIV exceeded the number of HIV-infected people. The important point is that the secondary infection rate from patients receiving treatment will be dramatically lower. The number of people with AIDS onset is expected to follow a falling line in the future, and Bill Gates says, "It still takes a long way until the AIDS eradication declaration, but this is a major first step."

AIDS campaigners say pandemic has finally reached tipping point | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/01/health-aids-idUSL6N0TK0UC20141201

It has also been reported that HIV is becoming weakened.

It is announced that there is a possibility that the day when HIV is weakened and "almost harmless" may come - GIGAZINE


◆ 3: The number of children who received the Rotavirus vaccine reached a record high


RotavirusIs a virus of plague that causes infant diarrhea and vomiting diarrhea. It is difficult to emphasize because it is not a fatal disease in developed countries, but developing countries take the lives of hundreds of thousands of children annually. As a result of the Gates' Foundation and others helping with the administration of the vaccine, the number of children killed by rotavirus has decreased to half. In India losing 80,000 people a year by rotavirus, a program to vaccinate free of poor children was also decided.

Rotavirus vaccine - New and underused vaccines support - Types of support - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
http://www.gavi.org/support/nvs/rotavirus/

◆ 4: Breakthrough in TB treatment


Tuberculosis is one of the major death factors in the world as of 2014. Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to drugs has not been established for perfect treatment, and improvement efforts have been stalled for decades. Meanwhile, the new medication treatment announced at the beginning of 2014 was found to be effective against tuberculosis, and the Gates Foundation invests in Phase III clinical trials of this study. If the research succeeds, we can save billions of dollars on health care costs in poor countries, because it can drastically reduce the time it takes to complete drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Gates Foundation Backing Phase III Clinical Trial Of New TB Drug Regimen | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
http://kff.org/news-summary/gates-funded-tb-drug-enters-phase-iii-clinical-trial/

◆ 5: Experience in fight against polio in Nigeria also demonstrates its power in the fight against Ebola


Nigeria combined with Pakistan and AfghanistanPolioAlthough it is regarded as a resident country, in Nigeria we continue to build infrastructure for the eradication of polio, and in the past 50 years we have only 6 cases of onset. The infrastructure built for polio demonstrates its power even when Ebola occurs, and now there is no Ebola virus in Nigeria. This was a great precedent for Ebola's excellent way to deal with other countries.

WHO | Nigeria is now free of Ebola virus transmission
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/20-october-2014/en/index2.html

◆ 6: Annual letter of Gates and Melinda


We announced the annual letter of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from January 2014 and will announce about plans for health, agriculture, finance, etc. of some of the poorest countries with the aim of 2030. Those who wish to obtain the annual letters since 2015 will be able to register mail addresses from the entry field at the end of the blog.