It’s been two years since my last letter, and the world has changed dramatically since then. Faced with compounding crises and competing priorities, leaders everywhere are making hard decisions about ...

Foundation is planning operating expenditures at approximately 14% annually to ensure more funds are directed to the programs and people we serve SEATTLE (January 14, 2026) – The Gates Foundation ...

Since 2002, the Global Fund has helped save an estimated 70 million lives by supporting country-led efforts to prevent, treat, and reduce the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and ...

At 2025 Goalkeepers event, Gates lays out roadmap for saving millions more children’s lives by 2045 if governments stretch every dollar and scale a pipeline of affordable, lifesaving innovations ...

When I first began practicing as an obstetrician-gynecologist, I was surprised to find that most medications commonly given to pregnant women hadn’t been specifically formulated for use in pregnancy.

Global health funding is facing unprecedented pressure, jeopardizing decades of remarkable progress. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has played a critical role in reducing global child deaths by half—from ...

Amid historic foreign aid cuts, Bill Gates urges wealthy nations to invest in Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which provides lifesaving vaccines to more than half of the world’s children SEATTLE (June 24, ...

Dr. Polycarp Oyoo will never forget his first encounter with postpartum bleeding—the leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide. As a young doctor, he helped a Kenyan mother deliver twins at a ...

ADDIS ABABA (June 2, 2025) – In an address today in Nelson Mandela Hall at the African Union, Gates Foundation Chair Bill Gates urged African leaders to seize the moment to accelerate progress in ...

Malaria has haunted humanity for thousands of years—its traces even found in the mummy of King Tut. Carried by mosquitoes, malaria is why these tiny insects are easily considered one of the world’s ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

This article originally appeared on Economist.com. In recent years a quiet but disturbing trend emerged: as countries struggled to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and other shocks, official ...