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Discover how the IG2 next-gen mosquito net is saving lives from malaria by overcoming recently evolved chemical-resistance in ...
Kenya’s success with a new post-partum hemorrhage protocol could improve maternal health care across Africa and beyond.
Meet Mrs. Ramatu Alhaji Yusuf, a smallholder farmer and community leader in the state of Kano in Northern Nigeria. Farmers like Yusuf grow several crops—sorghum, millet, soybeans, tomatoes, and onions ...
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, ...
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 ...
Smallholder farming’s role in global economic recovery. Given that COVID-19 has plunged as many as 31 million people into extreme poverty and many nations are facing a daunting climb toward economic ...
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 ...
Sweety is just one of millions of working women all over the world who are now enjoying the benefits of financial inclusion. In fact, according to this week’s Global Findex 2021 report, many nations, ...
Governments are learning how to address these challenges, though. India’s National Rural Livelihoods Mission, for example, has been a pioneer in providing affordable credit to women who belong to ...
It is one of the cruel ironies of climate change’s impact that the families and communities least responsible for this global crisis are the ones feeling its most extreme repercussions. Africa ...
Commits to partnering with governments that put people’s health and wellbeing first. ADDIS ABABA (June 2, 2025) – In an address today in Nelson Mandela Hall at the African Union, Gates Foundation ...
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: ...