MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carlos Slim and Bill Gates, the world's richest men with a combined fortune of over $100 billion, announced a joint effort on Monday that will bring basic preventive health care to poor people in southern Mexico and Central America.
Mexican tycoon Slim took the top spot in the Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest for the first time this year. He and Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates will pitch in $50 million each to sponsor vaccinations, child nutrition and natal health for the region's most poor.
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