Pregnancy should always be safe, but in Nigeria some families are scared about what the outcome might be. About 75,000 women ...

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, ...

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 ...

When polio resurfaced in Liberia after more than a decade, health worker Evans Lablah and his team mobilized a rapid response to stop the outbreak and protect millions of children from the disease. It ...

With a concerted push now and sustained effort over the next two decades, by 2045 the world’s infectious disease landscape could completely transform. By 2045, we believe the world can eradicate polio ...

Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...

It seems obvious that women’s bodies differ from men’s, even at the cellular level. After all, every cell has a sex. Yet science and medicine have historically overlooked these sex- and gender-based ...

After years of progress toward health equity and poverty reduction, we are seeing a widening gap between countries and communities on nearly all metrics of global development. The development of new ...

Whether we’re paying the rent, receiving a paycheck, splitting the cost of a meal, or simply buying a coffee, people in much of the world take digital banking for granted. Everything is handled with a ...

I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

In her small village in rural Kenya, Josephine Kimonyi is known for making bold moves. In 2014, she and her husband Samuel left a vibrant life in Nairobi to return to Ngumu in southeast Kenya, where ...

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: ...