Bill Gates: Strides in Global Health at Risk if Rich Nations Pull Back
(World News Science)

The world is making enormous strides in areas such as child mortality, HIV and extreme poverty, but if the U.S. and other countries pull back funding, that progress could slow, said Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.   When it comes to HIV, for example, `if we had a 10 percent cut in the funding, we`d have 5 million more deaths by 2030,` said Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. `What happens matters here.` On Wednesday, the Gates Foundation issued its first annual report card on 18...