Bill and Melinda Gates have donated $20 million for family planning efforts in developing countries. The grant from the founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp.and his wife was announced by Johns Hopkins University on May 25, the day after the birth of the couple's second child.

The grant, approved "some time ago," reports the May 30 New York Times, will be used to train foreign health workers at the university.

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