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Kenya’s success with a new post-partum hemorrhage protocol could improve maternal health care across Africa and beyond.
Discover how the IG2 next-gen mosquito net is saving lives from malaria by overcoming recently evolved chemical-resistance in ...
This article originally appeared on Economist.com. When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, they may sum it up this way: 20 years of unprecedented progress followed by five ...
On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed to spending $8.6 billion in 2024 to help meet mounting needs and fund innovative ways to save and improve lives. Many philanthropists are stepping up, ...
Problem 2: Some teachers may not have the training, knowledge, and experience they need to be effective in their roles. Up to 40% of teachers in sub-Saharan Africa cannot demonstrate proficiency in ...
SEATTLE, November 2, 2021 – Today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged US $315 million to the CGIAR global agriculture research ...
But while the use of digital financial services has exploded over the past decade, 1.4 billion people around the world, and nearly one in three adults in low- and middle-income countries, still do not ...
As our foundation’s co-chair Melinda French Gates has said, “[I]t’s time to start treating child care as essential infrastructure—just as worthy of funding as roads and fiber optic cables.In the long ...
Rural women farmers might be the world’s most extraordinary unsung agents of change when it comes to climate resilience. These women make up nearly half the world’s agricultural workforce and produce ...
Since January 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than US$2 billion to the global COVID-19 response. Our funding commitments for COVID-19 response draw from three sources: ...
Foreword by Gail Rodgers. This is a story about how change happens in public health. Specifically, it’s a story about how a lifesaving vaccine called PCV became available to all children in India—and ...