{"id":12726,"date":"2014-01-23T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T10:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12726"},"modified":"2014-01-23T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T10:33:45","slug":"bill-gates-on-developing-thinner-condoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12726","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates on developing thinner condoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/condoms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12727\" alt=\"condoms\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/condoms.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/condoms.jpg 296w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/condoms-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>Vaccines aren\u2019t dangerous, according to Bill Gates. It\u2019s the belief that they can cause autism that poses a serious threat to the health of children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 58-year-old billionaire philanthropist spoke to \u201cAMERICA with Jorge Ramos\u201d in an interview that will air on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNothing has saved more lives than vaccines, and nothing has been more disproven than any link between vaccines and negative things like autism,\u201d Gates told Ramos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its annual letter on Tuesday, with Gates outlining his vision for eradicating the world\u2019s worst poverty in the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Global health initiatives and vaccines are a major part of achieving that goal. The foundation website says that \u201cvaccines are among the most cost-effective investments in global health, saving about 2.5 million lives each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gates spoke with Ramos about his foundation\u2019s investment in research to create a thinner, stronger condom. The foundation awarded more than $1 million in grants toward the goal in November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe common analogy is that wearing a condom is like taking a shower with a raincoat on,\u201d Dr. Papa Salif Sow, a senior program officer on the HIV team at the Gates Foundation told The New Republic at the time of the announcement. \u201cA redesigned condom that overcomes inconvenience, fumbling, or perceived loss of pleasure would be a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramos asked Gates why he decided to experiment with improving condoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn general, if women want to have contraception, we think it should be available to them,\u201d Gates said on Tuesday. \u201cSo whatever new ideas there are to make it more convenient, less side effects&#8230;we\u2019re a big funder of innovation in that area, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: fusion.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines aren\u2019t dangerous, according to Bill Gates. It\u2019s the belief that they can cause autism that poses a serious threat to the health of children. The 58-year-old billionaire philanthropist spoke to \u201cAMERICA with Jorge Ramos\u201d in an interview that will air on Tuesday. \u201cNothing has saved more lives than vaccines, and nothing has been more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Gates on developing thinner condoms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[8121,3264,6113,8120,8122],"class_list":["post-12726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-america-with-jorge-ramos","tag-autism","tag-bill-gates","tag-thinner-condoms","tag-vaccines"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/condoms.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12728,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}