Helene Gayle
named head of CARE USA

Helene Gayle, the former director of HIV programs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the current head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's AIDS efforts, was named Friday as the new president and CEO of the Atlanta-based AIDS organization CARE USA, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Gayle, who also serves as president of the International AIDS Society, will leave the Gates Foundation in February 2006. Gayle, the first African-American woman to lead CARE USA, will replace outgoing CEO Peter Bell, who headed the agency for 10 years. (Advocate.com)